Ministers need to be honest with the public about the hardship ahead
As Putin’s monstrous war rages in Ukraine, it is impossible not to be consumed by rage and despair. In a war where the forces of good and…
We will put Russia’s war criminals behind bars
As Attorney General, I have been working with Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, to find out what more we can do to support Ukraine’s journey to justice…
Russia’s population will struggle to sustain a long conflict
The great population events of the past shaped our history and made us who we are. The explosion in numbers in these islands fuelled the settlement of…
The West should welcome Russian emigres as it did during Soviet era
The economist Kontantin Sonin has estimated that even if all sanctions were lifted tomorrow – that’s even assuming Western firms would come back – it would take…
How Putin could be removed from power – and who would replace him
Barring any such deus ex machina, it is hard to see him standing down voluntarily. He periodically toyed with handing the presidency to a successor, perhaps retaining…
Fact-checking Russian claims of US labs making lethal biological weapons in Ukraine
Dr Filippa Lentzos, co-director of the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London, debunked similar claims that the Russians made about a lab in…
Chemical weapons attack by Russia in Ukraine could force Nato to act, warns minister
In August 2012, Barack Obama, the then US president, warned that their use by Bashar al-Assad’s government would be a “red line” for intervention by the United…
Forget ‘Londongrad’ – the French Riviera is the Russian elite’s real playground
Sechin, chief executive of energy giant Rosneft, was the first major figure targeted on the Côte d’Azur as his yacht, the Amore Vero, was seized by French…
What now for McMafia? Why TV drama has a Russia problem
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has torn the phrase culture wars from the petty squabbles of keyboard warriors onto the actual front line of a real shooting…
What now for McMafia? Why TV drama has a Russia problem
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has torn the phrase culture wars from the petty squabbles of keyboard warriors onto the actual front line of a real shooting…
Lada halts production as sanctions cripple supply of parts
Lada has been forced to halt production of cars after sanctions left the stalwart Russian brand unable to get enough parts. The company is closing plants in…
Russia at risk of default within days
Russia is facing effective bankruptcy as soon as Wednesday after the World Bank warned that crippling sanctions have left the Kremlin “mighty close” to a default on…
Europe’s worst tourists? The countries that will be hit hardest by the loss of sunseeking Russians
Nor will Turkey be alone in this fearful insomnia. Egypt does not – at present – have the same magnetism for Russian tourists, but it understands what…
How Putin got Europe’s elite hooked on Russian gas
Simone Tagliapietra, an energy policy expert at Brussels think tank Bruegel, says: “Certainly Italy, Germany [and] Austria: these countries have really invested politically strongly into these relationships…
Russia faces a new Soviet era amid exodus of western brands
It came amid a swell of Western companies attempting to forge pathways into the state, with some managing to do so even at the height of the…
Russian World: the dangerous doctrine driving Putin’s destruction of Ukraine
The idea was taken up by Putin, who used it as an arm of his foreign policy from 2012. The Russian World, he argued, was a “family”…
Luxury groups count the cost of Russian exit
He argues that these companies pausing operations in Russia is largely due to logistics, and not necessarily an entirely an ethical stance: “If Russia is closed out…
How the war in Ukraine has redrawn the travel map
The war in Ukraine is having a knock-on effect for our holidays, with flight prices rising and booking patterns changing since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24….
The charities taking donations to help Ukraine refugees and those on the front line
Britons have been asking how to help following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The attack, launched on February 24, has seen more than 1 million Ukrainians flee…
Oleg Deripaska’s downfall offers a glimpse into the future for Russia’s oligarchs
In 2000 Deripaska teamed up with Abramovich when the pair merged businesses to create Rusal. It captured most of Russia’s aluminium industry at a stroke and created…
Lord Lebedev’s peerage should be investigated, insist Labour
Lord Lebedev’s peerage should be investigated by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, Labour has said, after it was claimed that Britain’s security services dropped alleged concerns about…
Vladimir Putin’s doomed bid to eradicate the truth only exposes his own vulnerability
Any Russian journalist who describes what is happening in Ukraine as either a war or an invasion will go to prison for up to 15 years. But…
Russia blocks use of Facebook and Twitter in crackdown on information
Russian citizens were on Friday facing an information blackout on the war in Ukraine after the Kremlin blocked Facebook and Twitter and passed a law threatening 15-year…
Financial armageddon looms as investors wait for Moscow’s ‘uninvestable’ stock market to reopen
Circulating Twitter is a picture of a set of china bowls hanging precariously inside a glass cabinet. The implication is that it will come crashing to the…
Property manager Graham Bonham-Carter’s accounts frozen after being accused of helping Oleg Deripaska evade sanctions
He said their complicated ownership structures, which involved companies registered in the British Virgin Islands and Cyprus, were simply designed to “mask the ultimate beneficial owner”, the…