“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.
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.
Wagner’s next act in Africa
How Vladimir Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin’s son have rebranded the mercenary group in the Sahel.
By
Kyiv’s recurring grief
Travelling through Ukraine, it’s clear that the country cannot escape its past.
By
The ugly truth about Russia’s missing money
Western democracies are giving Vladimir Putin so much cash that he’s having to hide it.
By
Putin’s fractured world
The Russian president is using the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to divide the West and the Global South.
By
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.
By
Navalny and Russia’s lost future
Will the dissident’s death galvanise the scattered Russian opposition – or mark the moment of their definitive defeat?
By
Alexei Navalny, the man who defied Vladimir Putin
As an opposition politician and activist, Navalny was one of Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critics.
By
Meeting Vladimir Putin
Also this week: The art of the political interview, and what’s next for the Telegraph takeover.
By
There were no winners in Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview
Though he dominated the exchange, the Russian president offered little insight and no new information.
By
What to watch for in Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview
The ex-Financial Times editor, and the last Western journalist to interview the Russian president, on ethics and propaganda.
By
Who is winning?
Parsing the narrative shifts in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
By
Revealed: how the City of London keeps Putin’s oil flowing
The Russian war machine is being helped by British companies.
By
The Wizard of the Kremlin takes us inside the mind of Putin’s spin-master
Giuliano da Empoli’s fictionalised portrait of Vladislav Surkov dramatises the birth of the post-truth world.
By
Vladimir Putin has no regrets
The Russian president feels vindicated in his belief that he can outlast the West in Ukraine.
By
Joseph Roth’s lessons for Putin’s Russia
A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…
By
Putin still wants to win
Simply “not losing” in Ukraine is not enough for Russia.
By
Is Vladimir Putin dead?
What the persistent rumours about the Russian president’s health do and do not tell us about the country’s future.
By
Russia and China still need each other
Vladimir Putin returns to Beijing at a tense geopolitical moment.
By