14 May will mark Turkey’s centenary and its President will be fighting for the right to take the country into its second century.
Something extraordinary...
For a real reversal of Russia’s fortunes, Putin will be banking in the coming weeks on his forces, replenished by mobilised reservists and conscripts,...
The ‘no limits relationship’ does have limits. Beijing has not provided material support for Putin’s war effort, nor has it helped his government and...
Most observers discount any possibility of civil war, insisting that there have been stirrings of armed insurrection in nearly every decade of Israel’s existence.
London:...
Russia may not survive the coming decade due to the divisive stresses pulling the federation apart.
In 2007, two years before he died, Russia’s first...
A new generation of hard-liners is emerging, surpassing even Putin’s old guard in their aggression. Of these, the most prominent is Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Who will...
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...
