The shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in Eastern Ukraine on 17th June has placed the conflict which has engulfed that part of Ukraine into an entirely new context. It has transformed the…
The question now is whether Russia’s economic difficulties will lead to mass protests and a split among the elites as happened in late Soviet times.
Ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has called journalists who justify Ukraine’s actions ‘active participants’ in a war against Russia.
With the Crimean parliament voting to join Russia, and EU leaders discussing potential sanctions, the Ukrainian crisis continues to escalate. But what if Russia’s next seizure wasn’t further territory…
A new report suggests Russia’s foreign policy strategy is to ‘stop worrying and love the disorder’.
In this fifth part of our series on the countries along Russia’s borders, we turn to south-east Europe. As Romania specialist Tom Gallagher explains, the Ukraine affair has made Bucharest distinctly uneasy…
The UK is pointing the finger at Russia for the nerve agent attack on a former spy. How should the government react?
Russia has made advances into eastern Ukraine, but the human cost is an estimated 53 casualties per square kilometre seized.
Even as speculation continues about whether Russia’s recent foreign policy behaviour will result in a return to conflict in Europe, a war of words is already ongoing in Russia itself and it is one that…
Russia went to war with the west, but it didn’t really notice until recently.
