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Ukraine’s Victory Day drone swarm is dangerous for Putin

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Eternal City / How Rome copes with the Conclave

Eternal City /					 													 						How Rome copes with the Conclave
28.04.2025 20

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‘Vladimir, STOP!’ / Trump is being humiliated by Putin

‘Vladimir, STOP!’ /					 													 						Trump is being humiliated by Putin
24.04.2025 6

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How Rome copes with the Conclave

How Rome copes with the Conclave
24.04.2025 4

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Why London’s Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks will fail

Why London’s Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks will fail
23.04.2025 7

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Has the Kremlin talked Trump out of sanctions?

10.04.2025 10

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Make or break / Erdogan’s latest power move could backfire

31.03.2025 3

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Putin has pushed Trump too far

31.03.2025 10

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Make or break / Erdogan’s latest power move could backfire

28.03.2025 10

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Erdogan’s latest power move could backfire

27.03.2025 20

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The EU’s ‘re-arming’ plan is unserious

21.03.2025 3

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Putin has played Trump like a fiddle

19.03.2025 30

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What Vladimir Putin really wants from Ukraine

13.03.2025 10

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Why Russia should agree to a ceasefire – and five reasons Putin might not

12.03.2025 4

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Bulgarian spy ring / Russian spying has become a pathetic, amateurish business

09.03.2025 10

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Russian spying has become a pathetic, amateurish business

08.03.2025 20

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Trump’s Ukraine strategy is mad. But it might work

05.03.2025 3

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‘Europe plus’ won’t save Ukraine

03.03.2025 5

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Zelensky knew who he was dealing with. And he misstepped

01.03.2025 10

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Trump won’t find a minerals bonanza in Ukraine

26.02.2025 10

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How the Ukraine conflict has changed the nature of war

24.02.2025 10

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The Trump-Zelensky train wreck will cost Ukraine dearly

20.02.2025 3

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Could Zelensky have made a deal to stop the war?

19.02.2025 5

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British troops won’t help Ukraine

17.02.2025 3

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Books / Putin’s éminence grise: The Wizard of the Kremlin, by Giuliano da Empoli, reviewed

13.02.2025 3

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Trump might really be a ‘peacemaker’ in Ukraine

13.02.2025 10

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Why Trump hates USAID so much

04.02.2025 4

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Is Europe about to switch Nord Stream back on?

30.01.2025 10

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A requiem for UK equity capital markets

London’s storied status as a global financial powerhouse is slipping away, and with every IPO that doesn’t materialise or company that decamps to...

15.12.2024 4

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Putin’s Middle Eastern house of cards

The Kremlin’s involvement in Syria’s civil war was always, first and foremost, about posing as a great multi-regional power rather than actually...

08.12.2024 4

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The deepening unpopularity of Zelensky

Perhaps all political careers must end, inevitably, in failure. But few politicians have had careers as meteoric, as surprising, as consequential...

05.12.2024 10

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Biden’s missiles will do Ukraine no favours

With just over 60 days left in office, Joe Biden’s White House has significantly escalated the Ukraine war it had tried so hard to contain by...

21.11.2024 4

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Critical condition / The appalling truth about London’s ambulance service

‘An old lady’s fallen down – quick! She’s bleeding. Come help.’ An elderly woman lay on the entrance steps of the block of mansion flats,...

14.11.2024 3

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US election / Donald Trump’s win marks the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war

Donald Trump’s election victory heralds the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war – and is likely to leave Vladimir Putin in control of most, if...

06.11.2024 4

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Meet the western conservatives moving to Russia

Tofurious Maximus Crane was sitting in a barber’s chair in Moscow when he received the greatest news of his life. It was 19 August, the day...

31.10.2024 7

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Strike out / Ukraine’s Nato fantasy

Ukraine’s President Zelensky was in Downing Street last week – as well as Paris, Rome, Berlin and Dubrovnik – asking for Nato membership. In every...

17.10.2024 8

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Books / Few rulers can have rejoiced in a less appropriate sobriquet than Augustus the Strong

Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, is often labelled one of the worst monarchs in European history. His reign...

04.10.2024 4

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Blurred lines / What does ‘victory’ for Ukraine look like?

This week in New York Volodymyr Zelensky will present Joe Biden with a ‘Victory Plan’ for Ukraine. But how to define what ‘victory’ actually...

26.09.2024 3

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How Wagner mercenaries abused HSBC and JP Morgan

Whatever happened to the Wagner Group, Evgeny Prigozhin’s shadowy army of prisoners and mercenaries? In the wake of Wagner’s abortive mutiny in...

25.09.2024 4

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