Peter Morgan’s Patriots confronts the rise of Putin in post-Soviet Russia
Tom Hollander plays the ambitious, politically well-connected billionaire Boris Berezovsky in this absorbing portrait of a power struggle.
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Marina Litvinenko: “I’m glad to talk about him – it feels like a duty”
The wife of Alexander Litvinenko on Putin, Peter Morgan’s Patriots and depictions of her husband’s assassination on stage and screen.
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The Kakhovka dam attack is just the beginning
As Kyiv launches its counter-offensive, both sides are escalating.
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How Russia’s war on Ukraine will change the world, with Serhii Plokhy
The acclaimed author’s latest book looks at the impact of the conflict
Ambassador Fu Cong: “Europe will not become a vassal to China”
China’s top diplomat to the EU on sanctions, preventing a trade war and why Beijing won’t condemn Russia’s invasion.
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Is the National Conservatism conference a glimpse into Britain’s future?
Britain is the latest beachhead for an American political philosophy that draws from the lingering influence of Donald Trump.
Ukraine reveals the rise of the non-aligned state
Zelensky left the G7 to a chorus of renewed Western support, but failed to convince the other leaders to choose…
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When will F-16 fighters reach Ukraine?
And can Kyiv’s air defence systems cope until then?
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Are sanctions on Russia working?
Moscow’s ability to cope with the economic pressure is discouraging – but it’s only part of the picture.
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Putin on trial
Will efforts to put Russia in a Nuremberg-style trial for the Ukraine war succeed?
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Spinning the story of war
Whether keeping up appearances or managing expectations, Moscow and Kyiv are both trying to shape the narrative in Ukraine.
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From the front line of “the world’s first cyberwar”
Victor Zhora exchanged a career in business for a top job in Ukraine’s civil service. A year later he was helping…
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Vladimir Putin is afraid of his own people
The most significant absence from this year’s Victory Day parade was not the tanks, it was the people.
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Has Yevgeny Prigozhin turned on Vladimir Putin?
The head of the Wagner Group has broken a cardinal rule of Russian politics: the subordinates are fair game, but…
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Putin under pressure
Russia’s war against Ukraine is coming home.
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The French right can’t quit Russia
A former prime minister’s parliamentary testimony highlights persistent pro-Moscow sympathies among France’s elite.
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Who is behind the drone attack on the Kremlin?
There are multiple possibilities but regardless of who ordered the attack, there is a danger that it could backfire.
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False flag attacks are usually just that – false
Successful covert attacks by a country on its own people are extremely hard to pull off, and thus extremely rare.
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Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq
The US linguist on the war in Ukraine, how the West is provoking China and why the UK is “not…
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