Russia

11/05/2015 - 12:02

I learned about the other side of the Great Patriotic War from personal stories, from my parents, from clandestine foreign radio broadcasts... →

05/05/2015 - 12:15

The Soviet Union lost more than 20m citizens and its role in defeating Nazi Germany was greater than that of any other state. The number... →

12/04/2015 - 12:29

In July, after the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, Gontar surveyed the internet, picking up shards of pro-... →

03/03/2015 - 13:20

The inquiry into the death of Litvinenko is taking place in London at the moment. Speaking at its opening, Ben Emmerson QC argued that the... →

17/02/2015 - 19:32

Neoliberalism is our Frankenstein. The thought holds for two reasons. At its core it is profoundly undemocratic, never mind that the... →

09/02/2015 - 15:50

Clearly, the real debate about Ukraine and Russia has yet to begin, by which I don’t just mean the “should we arm Ukraine?” debate. This is... →

07/01/2015 - 14:19

Today, Russia’s leaders are starting to acknowledge the importance of this economic gap. In his annual State-of-the-Union-style address,... →

19/12/2014 - 15:11

The geopolitical situation has not yet severely hurt collaborations such as the International Space Station or the ITER fusion reactor that... →

22/11/2014 - 14:25

Since the mid-19th century, Russians—due to their tumultuous political history—have had cause to raise two particular questions in the... →

18/11/2014 - 12:40

Prologue My abiding impression of the Soviet Union during my first two postings to the British Embassy in Moscow, between 1964 and 1966,... →

24/10/2014 - 11:49

Portraits of Baltic Russian-Speakers Russian-speakers in the Baltic states are not a uniform group and vary greatly by country, by... →

19/10/2014 - 12:04

The whole colossal exercise was without any rational justification. Tsarist Russia was an inefficient country but, under the impact of... →

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