April 2022
‘No culture, no sports, only fighting’: The steel town that forged Volodymyr Zelensky
Before he was Ukraine’s president and a global icon of democracy, Volodymyr Zelensky was a boy from the gritty former Soviet industrial city of Kryvyi Rih.
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- Misha Zelinsky
February 2022
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s resentful leader, takes the world to war
The war in Ukraine marks the culmination of a slide into a paranoid autocracy that earns comparison with Russia’s most brutal rulers, writes Max Seddon.
- Max Seddon
January 2022
- Opinion
- Putin's Russia
Putin to Ukraine: ‘marry me, or I’ll kill you’
Putin’s claims on Ukraine are part of his plan to hold power in a permanent state of conflict. But they also resonate deeply with Russia’s people and its history.
- Thomas L. Friedman
May 2021
‘I’ve mortally offended Putin by surviving’
Russia’s leading opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, has endured imprisonment and poisoning over the course of his political career. He isn’t finished yet.
- Arkady Ostrovsky
February 2021
Our (unequalled) man in Moscow
Few people had the understanding of the inner workings of Russia and its power elites in the Gorbachev to Putin era that diplomat and businessman Glenn Waller had.
- Kyle Wilson