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Inside Russia Today: counterweight to the mainstream media, or Putin's mouthpiece?
10 May 2013

Up to 2.5m Britons watch the Kremlin-funded TV channel, which is so strongly critical of Western governments it's known as the "anti Fox News". But does it have a blind spot when it comes to Russia's own failings?

International Politics
From Russia with love, to Cyprus with cash
21 March 2013

Perhaps the Russian oligarchs’ days of hassle-free, tax-free, risk-free banking are finally over...

Books
All quiet on the eastern front
04 October 2012

The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War - review.

International Politics
Inside Chechnya: Putin's reign of terror
29 August 2012

A population that lives in fear of state violence, and a 99 per cent election tally that could have come from the Soviet era - welcome to Putin's Russia.

International Politics
One man versus the people
05 March 2012

Vladimir Putin has stifled dissent throughout his political life. But as he prepares for another pre

Books
The New Nobility: the Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
09 December 2010

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