Aug 20, 2018The Prague Spring Half a Century onphoto from the Russian newspaper Kommersant on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (This blog was...
Aug 25, 2016Putin and Erdogan Do a Deal (sort of)On 15 August, the Russian and Turkish Presidents met in St Petersburg. This was their first encounter since their two countries’...
Jun 14, 2016The Future of the European Union: A Brexit wrecks it?Some thoughts on the impact of a Brexit victory for the future of the European Union. The UK referendum on whether Great Britain stays...
Oct 21, 2015Russia, Syria, Ukraine – and the Rest of the WorldPutin’s objectives in Syria have as much or more to do with Russian concerns about developments in the former Soviet Union as with the...