Russia illustrates how legal systems, when deprived of independence and accountability, can become potent instruments of authoritarian resilience. Since the early 2000s...
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With Donald Trump back in the White House, official talks with Vladimir Putin about ending the Ukraine war look likely. The best place to host those talks is in...
The first significant Russian strategic defeat as a direct consequence of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the loss of its Mediterranean outpost. Vladimir...
The BRICS summit in Kazan is missing one important potential member: Kazakhstan. For Vladimir Putin, it’s a geopolitical setback that Russia’s historical...
Despite Western misperceptions, little has changed in the geopolitics of the South Caucasus. Armenia remains enmeshed with Russia and Azerbaijan remains outside Russia’s...
Catch up quickly with the stories from Central and Eastern Europe that matter, this week led by news of Ukraine’s surprise advance inside Russia’s Kursk region...
President Alexander Lukashenko will almost certainly use his country’s accession to the Eurasian multilateral grouping as a pretext to carry on inundating Poland and the...
Stripping Hungary of its right to host a key meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers is the latest sign that Brussels is ready to get serious about Viktor Orbán’s...
We should expect more Russian grain politicking throughout and after this summer and autumn harvest season, most likely supported by states apathetic to or aligned with...
On the eve of a peace summit in Switzerland, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a vision for ending his war on Ukraine: control of four Ukrainian regions...
Western governments don’t know exactly what Vladimir Putin is likely to do next, but they do know enough to start preparing for the worst. For the past three months...
Falsely blaming Ukraine and the West for the recent Moscow terrorist attack, Vladimir Putin will launch a further mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of Russians—many...
