Sale of the century: how Putin got to power
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Cannes, 6 March 2022
by Mark Porter
A Quick Guide: how the oligarchs took control of Russia after the collapse of the USSR, leading to the...
Putin’s War Is Xi’s Worst Nightmare
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Beijing is watching closely. And it doesn’t like what it sees.
By Craig Singleton, a senior China fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies...
Who is Volodymyr Zelensky? From TV star and comedian to resistance hero
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Post Paddington voiceover, the man who leads Ukraine's resistance to Russia
By James Hookway, Wall Street Journal
President Volodymyr Zelensky has become the face of Ukraine’s...
Maps as weapons
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Financial Times
John Gapper
When Apple suspended sales of iPhones and other products in Russia this week, it also made a subtler intervention. Along with Google,...
Exodus from Hell as mortars explode around the refugee train
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Lviv, Ukraine 2 March 2022
by Askold Krushelnycky
Last week Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin declared the pro-Moscow entities independent republics and used the pretext of “liberating” them...
Belarus tanks wait at the border as Lviv prepares itself
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Cannes, 2 March 2022
by Mark Porter
Our reporter on the ground has made it to Lviv, near the Polish and Belarus borders. He reports that...
Gergiev’s star falls as Kyiv prepares to look Hell in the face
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Cannes, 1 March 2022
by Mark Porter
Russia’s star conductor, Valery Gergiev, has been sacked by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and also dropped by his management over...
How Johnson was a gift to Putin
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"Far from defending liberal values, the Prime Minister has shown disdain for international and domestic law," The New Statesman.
This article appeared in this week's...
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Russian Air Force
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by Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began as expected in the early hours of 24 February: a...
A game of mirrors as the West asserts itself
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Cannes, 28 February 2022
By Mark Porter
Today was the day the timid peaceniks of the EU became hawks. In one fell swoop Vladimir Putin succeeded...