Russia, behind the headlines as well as in the shadows. This podcast is the audio counterpart to Mar
With Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years on what I consider wholly s
The Rosgvardiya, the National Guard, is the final backstop of Putin's rule, the public order fo
The claim that Russian intelligence planned to murder a German industrialist highlights the Kremlin&
Will the change in government in London and Sir Keir Starmer's elevation to prime minister mea
A compilation of current issues, which will nonetheless somehow connect:The Trump-Biden debate: what
Exactly one year after Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary army began its mutiny, what has changed, an
Ukraine's Ten Point Peace Plan, which received only limited endorsement at the recent Swiss Pea
Putin's lengthy Q&A at the St Petersburg International Forum (SPIEF), in conversation with
An episode of various bits and pieces: what (if anything) can we read into Alexei Dyumin's appo
What is behind the current spate of corruption-related arrests within the Russian military? Fears of
There has been an unexpectedly interesting and extensive reshuffle of the Russian government, but wh
Reading Barbara Emerson's excellent The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Cen
The case of Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, long known as 'king of the kickback,' bu
In the first part, I talk about some of the issues raised by a recent article in Foreign Affairs by
Why are some individuals, parties, even countries still so willing to believe (or at least affect to
Is Putin's Russia becoming a revolutionary state? A recent article on RT by Dmitry Trenin, once
After a sham election and a ghastly terrorist attack (and a pretty ghastly official response), time
What a week it has been. I give my initial thoughts on the awful terrorist attack on the outskirts o
Russia's presidential elections are coming to a close, and while Putin's landslide victory
Are we failing properly to consider the danger as the Kremlin turns to Russian-based organised crime
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