Russia

Putin clamps down on freedom of travel

As the Kremlin becomes more hostile to the West, civil servants are being denied the right to travel – and ordinary citizens could be next

Ukraine’s fragile ceasefire

The first of four posts in the run-up to the Ukrainian elections on 26 October, where nothing less than the size, shape, strength and viability of the Ukrainian state itself is at stake. 

The Russian mirror has broken

Putin has diverted Russia's course from modernisation to revisionism in order to shore up the power of a small elite