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Russia / Has Ukraine just carried out another assassination in Moscow?

Russia / Has Ukraine just carried out another assassination in Moscow?
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The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Britain is taking a punt on Ukraine’s future

Britain is taking a punt on Ukraine’s future
20.01.2025 5

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Russians are feeling the pinch as Putin’s war rumbles on

The Russian Orthodox Church or state calendar doesn’t recognise 25 December as a special day: their Christmas is 7 January by their old calendar...

27.12.2024 30

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Vladimir Putin’s four-and-a-half-hour troll

Every year, Vladimir Putin gives a marathon town hall event that lasts for hours. Every year, I feel compelled to watch. Every year, I wonder if it...

19.12.2024 6

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Why Ukraine killed Igor Kirillov

Another one down. This morning, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of RKhBZ, Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops, was heading...

17.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Bashar al-Assad’s exile in Putin’s gilded cage

‘Brave Assad fled to Putin. Where will Putin flee?’ asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky after the Syrian dictator escaped embattled...

11.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Putin’s mind games still have power over Ukraine

The air raid sirens sounded yesterday, the American embassy in Kyiv closed, as did the Italian and Greek. The British and French embassy warned...

21.11.2024 1

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Could Trump save Ukraine?

One thousand days into Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, three facts seem to be evident. First, Russia is losing. It is using its...

19.11.2024 1

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

A smoking ban risks a black market boom in Russia

The UK isn’t the only place which has been toying with the idea of introducing a ‘generational’ tobacco ban. Rishi Sunak’s bill that would ban...

27.10.2024 2

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

The Dawn Sturgess inquiry raises serious questions for MI5

The inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess as an innocent victim of the attempt to murder Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal in 2018 has begun, a...

15.10.2024 3

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Moscow wants to ruin your weekend

When is slower internet better than none at all? When are travel delays more serious a political challenge than threats of nuclear war? These...

14.09.2024 3

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Why is Putin expelling more British diplomats?

Another six bite the dust. The British Embassy in Moscow, already pared to the bone, is being reduced by another six diplomats. Their accreditation...

13.09.2024 20

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Moscow is blaming Britain for the Kursk attack

Is the sinking of the super-yacht Bayesian and likely death of Mike Lynch a bigger story than Ukraine’s Kursk incursion? The Russian mid-market...

22.08.2024 2

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

Will Ukraine’s Kursk offensive pay off?

For the first time since the Second World War, foreign forces have invaded Russia. As Ukrainian troops push over the border into the Kursk region,...

08.08.2024 2

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti

The Soviet Union’s gerontocracy should serve as a warning to the US

One waspish – but not entirely inaccurate – Russian media assessment of the first US presidential debate was that it was ‘a reality show about the...

21.07.2024 3

The Spectator

Mark Galeotti