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Has Ukraine called Putin’s bluff?

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Mark Galeotti

Why Russia has shrugged off Trump’s sanctions threat

08.03.2025 9

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Mark Galeotti

War / Why Russia has shrugged off Trump’s sanctions threat

08.03.2025 30

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Trump’s pausing of intelligence sharing will hit Ukraine hard

Trump’s pausing of intelligence sharing will hit Ukraine hard
06.03.2025 10

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What does Trump’s minerals deal mean for Ukraine?

What does Trump’s minerals deal mean for Ukraine?
26.02.2025 10

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Is Trump’s hostile takeover of Ukraine a trap?

Is Trump’s hostile takeover of Ukraine a trap?
18.02.2025 20

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Mark Galeotti

How seriously will Putin take Ukraine negotiations?

15.02.2025 10

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Mark Galeotti

Will flattery buy Zelensky help from Trump?

12.02.2025 4

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Mark Galeotti

Has Putin picked up the phone to Donald Trump?

10.02.2025 7

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Mark Galeotti

Multipolar world / Russia’s quest to woo Africa is paying off

09.02.2025 7

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Mark Galeotti

Multipolar world / Russia’s quest to woo Africa is paying off

09.02.2025 8

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Russia’s quest to woo Africa is paying off

08.02.2025 20

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Mark Galeotti

Can a second Kursk offensive give Ukraine bargaining power?

07.02.2025 3

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Mark Galeotti

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

03.02.2025 2

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Mark Galeotti

Britain is taking a punt on Ukraine’s future

20.01.2025 5

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mark Galeotti

Stealth attacks / Russia’s sabotage campaign against the West

When a DHL cargo plane crashed while approaching Vilnius airport on Monday, killing one of the crew, it looked like technical failure, but given...

28.11.2024 3

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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 3

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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 2

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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 4

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Mark Galeotti

Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’ is unlikely to impress Europe

After confidentially briefing it around various Western capitals, President Zelelsnky has unveiled – to a degree – his much-trailed ‘victory...

17.10.2024 2

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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

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Mark Galeotti

Security threat / Why Russia’s spies are turning up the heat on Britain

On Monday, Ken McCallum, head of the Security Service – MI5 – warned of the serious threat from the Russian and Iranian intelligence agencies. He...

09.10.2024 2

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Mark Galeotti

Vladimir Putin’s 72nd may have been his unhappiest birthday yet

Happy birthday, Mr President? With Vladimir Putin turning 72 on Monday, this has become an opportunity for the Kremlin’s spin doctors to present...

08.10.2024 9

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mark Galeotti