Meeting Vladimir Putin
Also this week: The art of the political interview, and what’s next for the Telegraph takeover.
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.
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.
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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.
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Who is winning?
Parsing the narrative shifts in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Revealed: how the City of London keeps Putin’s oil flowing
The Russian war machine is being helped by British companies.
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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.
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Vladimir Putin has no regrets
The Russian president feels vindicated in his belief that he can outlast the West in Ukraine.
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Joseph Roth’s lessons for Putin’s Russia
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Putin still wants to win
Simply “not losing” in Ukraine is not enough for Russia.
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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.
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Russia and China still need each other
Vladimir Putin returns to Beijing at a tense geopolitical moment.
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What John Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine
The great-power realist lets theory get in the way of fact.
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Welcome to Putin and Kim’s parallel reality
The two leaders not only need each other, they also now share a worldview.
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What Putin learned from Hitler
The two dictators considered themselves engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Western imperialism – and retaliated with their own plans…
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Putin’s darkest conspiracy theory yet
The Russian president’s latest claims about Zelensky’s Jewish roots are as revealing as they are grotesque.
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The unreality of American realism
The war in Ukraine can’t be compared to Vietnam.
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Death of a warlord
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s assassination won’t help Russia’s flailing war effort in Ukraine.
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Putin has declared war on Russia
The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin proves that it’s not the regime’s enemies that are under attack but its heroes.
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Russian currency crash is a blow to Putin’s credibility
Sanctions have cut off the financing the president needs to increase military spending.
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What if Ukraine loses?
As criticism of Kyiv’s strategy mounts in the West, hard questions must be asked.
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