There are no signs that the Ukrainian people are weakening. Russia’s brutality has only served to increase the people’s determination to defeat the aggressor.
It...
When hundreds of returning coffins morph into thousands, the public mood will harden quickly against Putin and the population will become even angrier.
‘Putin’s bad...
The Brother of Italy’s coalition with the League and Forza Italia will share the characteristics of other European right-wing brethren: hostility to ‘elites’, authoritarian...
As a last resort, will Vladimir Putin go nuclear? Rose Gottemoeller, a former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, suggested he might.
Something extraordinary happened last...
Steady as her ubiquitous profile on stamps and coins, the Queen embodied the British stiff-upper lip.
London: Being in the presence of the monarch was...
The elaborate cover stories, high level of training and the length of their missions make illegals incredibly difficult to track down.
London: It’s as old...
The existence of such an anti-Putin group will worry the Kremlin.
Stalemate. Six months into President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, this is the...
Germany is uniquely vulnerable to Russian threats to reduce gas flows. The sheer volume of gas that Berlin imports, almost 52.5 billion cubic metres...
Putin’s focus on imaginary Nazis illustrates his bizarre and dangerous behaviour in his final years. Many political scientists have concluded that the ‘Putinist’ system...
The high level of prosperity in the former colony is now under threat by China’s crackdown, as international investors become wary of the future.
Hong...
The challenge currently facing Ukraine and its partners is the disconnect between the West’s powerful long-term sanctions and the shorter-term military advantages Russia still...
Something scary happened last week, something that could escalate quickly into a world war. A train from Moscow to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad...
Frustrated by mounting uncertainties and lack of economic opportunities in Jinping’s kingdom, youth have come up with a new phrase to encapsulate their outlook...
‘If we do not feed people, we feed conflict’, Antonio Guterres said, urging Russia to release Ukrainian grain exports.
Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, many...
Until recently, Finnish leaders saw Nato membership as an unnecessary provocation to Moscow.
London: It was all so predictable. Last February, as Russian forces were...
China’s investments in Serbia recently exceeded three billion euros and Chinese infrastructure loans were in excess of eight billion.
Last weekend, six Chinese Air Force...
The upside for China will be that as Russia becomes more economically and politically isolated, Beijing will seek to profit from its dilemma, walking...
Putin’s current aggression is pushing more and more Ukrainians away from Russia towards the West.
It was exactly three years ago that Ukraine’s President, then...
The roots of this artificial crisis lie in Putin’s pan-Russianist obsession. In his eyes, borderland countries with ethnic Russian populations, particularly Ukraine, are ‘Russian...
US negotiators at tomorrow’s meeting must seek ways to de-escalate the looming conflict, while finding face-saving ways for Putin to back down.
Why is President...
Recently declassified documents reveal how hard Mikhail Gorbachev struggled throughout 1990 and 1991 to preserve the Union against the independent-minded leaders of Soviet republics,...
