Why Vladimir Putin cancelled his annual year-end press conference
With his war against Ukraine foundering, the Russian president is unable or unwilling to explain himself.
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Emmanuel Macron is undermining French support for Ukraine
Paris’s commendable backing to Kyiv is too often obscured by the president’s erraticness.
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Estonia supports Ukraine because we know the devastation of Russian imperialism
Moscow’s full-scale war did not come as a surprise to us, but we didn’t believe it would so closely replay…
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Dozhd could never have survived in Latvia
The independent Russian TV channel’s demise shows how even anti-Putin Russians are unable to completely align with hawkish Western states.
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Leader: The year of living dangerously
In a new era of permanent crisis, the past 12 months demonstrated the power of leadership – for good and…
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Investigations into Ukrainian mass graves highlight the devastating cost of Russia’s war
As Ukraine liberates more of its territory from Russian control, the deadly toll of Vladimir Putin’s invasion is being revealed.
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What will it take for Russia to understand it’s losing the war?
After nine months of fighting Russia has yet to achieve a single war aim through force of arms.
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The brutal methods of Russia’s Wagner Group
The group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has used the Ukraine war to establish himself in Russian politics.
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