Ukraine-Russia Crisis
Total 8 Posts
Putin’s mobilisation speech: what he said and what he meant
5 min read
Vladimir Putin sees his war in Ukraine as an existential war, while the West sees it as a war of choice. The West needs to understand the messages coming from Russia, not ignore them.
Putin calls up more troops in Ukraine and threatens nuclear option in a speech which ups the ante but shows Russia’s weakness
6 min read
Vladimir Putin has played most of his cards now and is still not winning on the ground in Ukraine. His televised address to the Russian people is a desperate attempt to raise the stakes over the war.
‘Ukraine fatigue’? A Ukrainian mother-and-daughter story from London
3 min read
The mother of one of my Ukrainian friends leaves London next month. She’s going home, my friend says, her eyes lowered. For how long, it’s not clear.
Vladimir Putin: A risk-taker who is gambling his country’s future.
8 min read
How did a young risk-taking politician take complete control of Russia and destabilise Europe and the US? Twenty years on, his dangerously aggressive and risky rule must be ended.
It’s time to fight Putin! – Garry Kasparov.
3 min read
How to checkmate Vladimir Putin, according to the former World Chess Champion, political activist and harsh critic of the Russian president.
For Russia, it’s all alt... even its tsar.
3 min read
Russia is now in an alternate universe where Vladimir Putin recreates the Russian empire.
UK-Russia – You can have freedom or corruption, not both.
5 min read
A Conservative MP on the dilemmas Vladimir Putin’s regime poses for the UK: time to choose between freedom and corruption, between independence and dirty money, he argues.