The assassination of Boris Nemtsov shows that in Putin’s Russia, anything is permitted
The west can do very little to intervene as Putin hunkers down.
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Angus Roxburgh
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Letter from Edinburgh: What it really means to be Scottish
Telling Scotland not to “go” is a bit like saying: “We don’t want you to run your own affairs.…
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The lack of a Scottish Six O’Clock News is a major democratic flaw
Viewers in Scotland have to sit through half-hour bulletins that may have no domestic news relevant to their lives,…
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Letter from Moscow: the mood turns nasty
In the wake of the Ukraine crisis a rampant chauvinism has been unleashed, while sanctions on Russia have created…
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Russia’s revenge: why the west will never understand the Kremlin
The events in Ukraine are Putin’s payback for what he considers to be a quarter-century of humiliation since the…
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Slovakia: life after the velvet divorce
Why the former Czechoslovakian state, which gained its “Velvet Divorce” from the Czech Republic in 1993, is one of…
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