Russia

DR ROBERT KRAMER, professor of psychoanalysis at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, explains the drive for immortality that brought war to Ukraine

Absolute power makes you think you can do what you like, where you like, how you like. It is a power no truly democratic leader will ever enjoy

Even a cursory reading of the Russians would have explained to many in the West why Putin was going to invade Ukraine, says WILL SELF

The Kremlin strongman is now an isolated, out-of-touch world pariah and increasingly unpopular at home. Could he be toppled?

Two 1990s films made by a future Putin ally explain the national obsession with humiliation that led to Ukraine

If we don't stop with sanctions and retool our economy, we will be even more complicit in the next atrocity we enable

While Putin's invasion challenges not only Ukraine's democracy but our own democratic system, we have found ourselves in a war between truth and lies

There is something troubling about many men at the moment, and it's about time someone said it

The meeting revealed a man more confident than autocratic, not the brittle and paranoid aggressor the world sees today

Putin must be seen by the world to lose. But, how this will happen and how long it will take remain difficult questions

Boris Johnson's posturing following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine hasn't distracted the country, or his own party, from his lies

A former military intelligence officer argues that Putin’s ambitions will not end here - and that we must recalibrate how we respond to agents of chaos

Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine is a watershed moment. But the democratic West's response has been encouragingly robust

The two men have such striking similarities that it's hard to decipher which rhetoric comes from which leader

It was submerged in 1922 as part of a plan to build a new reservoir. Now, after a historic drought, it returns

The shadows of the heavily redacted, much delayed 2020 Russia Report and London’s reputation as a laundromat for dirty money are clouding the prime minister’s insistence that Britain is “out in front” in this global crisis

As the power games play out in Europe, we continue to hope that key players will use reason and self-control

In order to defend the best of Western tradition, we have to redefine it

Olaf Scholz is moving at last, but energy dependency and World War II guilt lie behind what could prove a fatal apathy

Our columnist explains why, despite Ukraine's pleas for help, Olaf Scholz is desperately trying to ignore rising tensions at the border.

A war between Russia and Ukraine is a prospect to be avoided at all costs. If it is not, then the human, social and economic impacts across Europe will be devastating.

The West faces an ultimatum from Russia that could result in actual war. Yet we don’t seem to have noticed. Paris Sorbonne professor of international relations and Russia specialist FRANÇOISE THOM analyses the threat.

He’s remembered as an unsmiling, bloated figure festooned with medals. But at one point the Soviet leader was classed as a heart-throb.

Facing rare criticism at home, Vladimir Putin is preparing a crowd-pleasing war against what he considers a ‘fake’ country.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Russian rap no longer acts purely as social commentary, but reflects a money-obsessed society in turmoil.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

The Russian region, disconnected from the motherland and deep in EU territory, is both an asset and a vulnerability for the Kremlin. PAUL KNOTT tells the story of one of the continent’s most intriguing places, where geography and history collide

Dancers perform on the back of a T-72B3 tank at the opening ceremony of the 2021 International Army Games at the Alabino military training ground near Moscow.

JAMES RODGERS was working in Russia in the summer of 1991, when the cracks in the USSR’s system suddenly broke apart.