カテゴリー: Vladimir Putin
It’s right to guard against UK components making their way to Vladimir Putin, but India’s controls are robust, writes Burzine WaghmarYou cited a recent report byJack Watling and Nick Reynolds, my Royal United Services Institute colleagues (Johnson vows…
Sir Jeremy Fleming speech says Russia’s president miscalculated the scale of resistanceRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesVladimir Putin has made a strategic miscalculation in launching the invasion of Ukraine and his advisers are “afraid to tell him th…
The Russian president may look isolated over Ukraine, but important players are hedging their betsWhen Vladimir Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk as independent republics, days before his invasion of Ukraine, one of the most powerful denunciations c…
Essay on US site republished in China before being censored, reflecting balancing act between Russia and westRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesWhen an essay from a prominent Shanghai scholar suggested China needed to cut ties with Vladimir Putin as so…
Thousands of resident illegally taken across border, says Mariupol council, as reports emerge its art school has been bombed while 400 were sheltering insideRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesWhat we know on day 25 of the invasionAuthorities in the Ukra…
Analysis: the world faces the possibility of a dramatic shift in the geopolitical balance of power as Beijing mulls support for Russia over the Ukraine warRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesJoe Biden is due to make a phone call to Xi Jinping on Friday a…
Putin and Xi have said the bonds between their two countries have ‘no limits’ but what does this mean in practice?Russia-Ukraine war – latest updatesUnder the rule of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin China and Russia have becoming increasingly isolated fr…
This blog is now closedUS fears China has already agreed to send economic aid to RussiaResidential building in Kyiv hit by airstrike as peace talks resumeRussian former foreign minister calls for Ukraine ceasefirePregnant woman and baby die after attac…
From Russia’s threat of nuclear weapons to the patriotic courage of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an A to Z of how the world has changedRussia-Ukraine war: latest newsRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has been described by politicians and commentators as a watershed…
Venezuela says Putin is a victim, China blames the US, and a South African pundit calls out western hypocrisyRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesMany an insult has been hurled at Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine a fortnight ago, causing chaos, hea…
They claim to be honest brokers, but is that just a fig leaf to cover their moral bankruptcy?Russia-Ukraine war: live updatesHow blessed are the peacemakers? After the first wave of intermediaries led by Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, a new group hav…
Readers respond to an article by Nesrine Malik about how the invasion of Ukraine has been viewed differently to other conflicts across the globeNesrine Malik’s comment has one further compelling dimension to it: seeing this horror in Ukraine and all co…
Analysis: While Xi and Putin have pledged closer cooperation, there are growing economic ties between Beijing and KyivUkraine crisis – live updatesThe unfolding crisis in Ukraine poses a diplomatic dilemma for China but also offers an opportunity for B…
Tub-thumping talk of all-out war in Ukraine seems overblown but the White House knows the fledgling Sino-Russian axis is a real threat, in Taiwan and elsewhereIf, as seems increasingly probable, Russia decides not to launch an all-out invasion of Ukrai…
Chinese and Russian leaders call on west to abandon ‘cold war’ approach at pre-Olympic meetingChina’s Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin of Russia have signed a joint statement calling on the west to “abandon the ideologised approaches of the cold war”, as …