Fellow, British Academy; Prof, IAS, Princeton (retired); Life Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Emeritus Prof, Cambridge University.
Observers might have wondered why Russian propaganda during the Ukraine war has been so fixated on the UK. There is good reason for this. The PM's apparently fixed determination to see Ukraine…
Russia's deep state television - TVZvezda , a Ministry of Defence outfit in Moscow, has just released a programme in the series Kod Dostupa. The programme not only quotes from classified British …
Vladimir Putin's war has been dragging on for nearly three years, leading to a bloody stalemate reminiscent of World War I. Victory is nowhere in sight despite massive loss of life, the devastation o…
You might have thought that a book about the origins of Putin’s
This was an exceptional event, and it signifies more than it might seem in the face of Ukraine's demands for long distance missiles and admission to NATO. This morning Laura Kuenssberg secured an inte…
Devoted as they were to the Soviet Union, the men and women who went under cover to run spy rings in the capitalist world had by definition to be tough nuts to crack. Reminiscences from his nephe…
Moskovskii komsomolets reports: "Staff Sergeant Dmitry Kuzmichev saw the first losses in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces 10 minutes after crossing the border on the first day of the Special Mil…
To say the least, the Germans were never enthusiasts in Ukraine's defence against Russia. And once Putin's attempt to seize Kyiv failed and he responded positively to mediation in the early spring…
Today the hardline daily Vzglyad gives a remarkably objective account of events since the horrendous massacre perpetrated by Hamas a year ago against Israel and the retaliation against Hamas and …
Across the globe one can find the most extraordinary ancient polygonal masonry, in some cases massive granite stones that cling to one another without anything inserted to bond them, and so close…
In their anxiety to forestall more effective deployment of longer range missiles against targets within Russia proper using targeting systems that can be released only by the Americans, the Russi…
