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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...


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...


How Putin keeps his power
There is a now heavily criticised mistake in the writing of the history of the Soviet Union by Americans in the mid-20th century. There...


Putin's referendum - President for life?
Last month, Russia voted on whether to approve 206 changes to approximately 60% of its Constitution. These changes included political...


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...


Ukraine's Zelensky - Hanging by a thread?
On the 21st April 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian and complete political outsider, was swept to power in the Ukrainian...


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...


Why the delay Prime Minister? – Select Committees and the Russian Election Interference Report
In November 2019, Boris Johnson blocked the publication of a report into alleged Russian interference in UK democratic politics,...
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