Russia

The long read from The Guardian, Tuesday 8 March 2022 Oligarch Dmitry Firtash is wanted by the FBI for bribery. Nonetheless, he was received into...

Cannes, 8 March 2022 by Mark Porter A Quick Guide: below is the third part of Adam Curtis's The Trap. He explains the philosophy of liberty...

The irony of the fight is that the better the Ukrainians do in the great David and Goliath contest, the more terrible could be...

Cannes, 7 March 2022 OPINION by Mark Porter "Putin – khuylo!" they shouted from St Petersburg to Nur-Sultan on the Kazak steppes. But the inalienable right to...

♦ US secretary of state Antony Blinken has assured Lithuania and Latvia of NATO protection and American support as he made visits to two...

London, March 6, 2022 by Nick Cohen   The savagery of Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukrainian democracy has sent them into headlong retreat. Nothing better illustrates their panic...

A very British train analogy to explain Ukraine. By Australian comedian, Adam Hills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA6n4bAzDFg

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...

THE IRISH GOVERNMENT will use emergency planning powers to provide accommodation for people fleeing Ukraine, according to junior minister Damien English. An estimated 600 people...

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...