The Russian ultra-nationalists defying Putin
Ukraine's Kursk incursion has sparked a wave of attacks on the regime.
ByVladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia and has been the country’s leader, with an interlude as prime minister, for more than 22 years. Putin was born in 1952, studied law at Leningrad State University and served for 15 years as a KGB officer before becoming a politician in 1991.
Vladimir Putin’s enemy within
The president’s betrayal of his conscript army is creating a generation ready to sow chaos in Russia.
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Who’s winning now?
With an incursion into Kursk and drone strikes in Moscow, Ukraine has brought the war to Russia.
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Why Putin gave up his hostages
In releasing Evan Gershkovich and others before November, the Russian president has denied Trump a diplomatic victory.
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Is there a peace plan for Ukraine?
Donald Trump has said he would end the war if he wins the White House. But at what cost?
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Europe’s Iron Lady: Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas
The Baltic leader has become the EU’s strongest advocate for an uncompromising response to Russia.
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Russia, North Korea and the axis of autocracies
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un’s dangerous pact makes even China uneasy.
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The end of the pariah state
What Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin’s deepening relationship reveals about the emerging international order.
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The rise of a new axis
China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are all deeply hostile to the US and its allies – and they could…
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What the West gets wrong about the war in Ukraine
If Kyiv’s allies had identified Putin’s invasion as an act of colonisation, they might have won more support from the…
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Russia’s victory-less Victory Day
Vladimir Putin’s forces are in the ascendancy – but there is still no end to the war in sight.
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“Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory”: Sergey Karaganov on what Putin wants
The Kremlin adviser explains how Russia views the war in Ukraine and the fate of liberalism.
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Wagner’s next act in Africa
How Vladimir Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin’s son have rebranded the mercenary group in the Sahel.
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Kyiv’s recurring grief
Travelling through Ukraine, it’s clear that the country cannot escape its past.
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The ugly truth about Russia’s missing money
Western democracies are giving Vladimir Putin so much cash that he’s having to hide it.
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Putin’s fractured world
The Russian president is using the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to divide the West and the Global South.
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Where does Ukraine go from here?
On the two-year anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion, writers and historians reflect on the war.
Alexei Navalny’s fatal devotion to truth
The dissident’s death is another chapter in Russia’s descent into violence. Yet no state can survive on violence alone.
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Navalny and Russia’s lost future
Will the dissident’s death galvanise the scattered Russian opposition – or mark the moment of their definitive defeat?
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Alexei Navalny, the man who defied Vladimir Putin
As an opposition politician and activist, Navalny was one of Vladimir Putin's most outspoken critics.
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