In the beginning of the war the economic sanctions against Russia didn't have the huge impact, that was foreseen in the West. But after the setbacks...
With attacks on the centre of Kyiv and lots of other cities last night it is clear Putin will never back down. He seeks revenge for his humiliation....
So far it is two cheers for Biden's approach to Russia, argues Matthew Sussex for the Interpreter. Some of the sanctions will be more effective than...
In an interview president Biden affirmed that he considered Putin 'a killer'. Russian pundits reacted ferociously, but Putin rather made fun of him,...
On November 15 the young reformer Maia Sandu convincingly won the presidential elections in Moldova. By defeating the Moscow-oriented Igor Dodon she...
Russia's ruling party United Russia has lost most of its credibility by now, after the highly impopular pension reform and the political protests of...
In his interview with the Financial Times Vladimir Putin buried liberalism. Commentators fumed, but our columnist Mark Galeotti, author of the sobre...
In a hall with over 400 (mostly) students at the Campus The Hague Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ex-CEO of oil company Yukos, former prisoner and opponent of...
Do we witness a ‘reset’ in German-Russian relations? On Iran and Nord Stream 2 a rapprochement between Putin and Merkel is possible, writes security...
With one of Putin’s closest henchmen as commander and 400,000 armed men on its payroll, the National Guard, created in 2016, is a serious new player...
The persecution of gay people in Chechnya may point to a profound weakness in the Kremlin’s power in the republic. President Putin apparently has no...
