Putin secures his third term: But what is going on under the surface?
Neither a PhD in Russian studies nor clairvoyant abilities were required to predict the outcome of the 2024 Russian election. Vladimir...
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Putin’s Perished Chef: How Yevgeny Prigozhin Became So Powerful
BY CHARLIE WILSON How did a St Petersburg catering business owner, also known as Putin’s chef, become a mercenary warlord who marched an...
Will Russia Face Justice for Atrocities in Ukraine? Don’t Hold Your Breath
By TARAS TRUNOV A woman is carried out of a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, following a Russian missile strike In the besieged...
Will there be no end to the reign of Putin?
With his hand on a gold-embossed copy of the Russian constitution, Putin was sworn in for the fourth time in 2018, when he promised to...
Putin, power and successors
Vladimir Putin has been in power for over twenty years. Russia is now unimaginable without his shadow silently lurking in the background....
Return of the Russian bear
When Putin first came to power, he inherited a Russia in a state of misery, distress and turmoil. The Communist ideology that had...
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