Kyle Wilson is a former DFAT officer specialising in Russia, Central Asia and China.
Essays & reportage
“If you have all these powers, why not use them?”
Kyle Wilson
5 January 2026
The Kazakh president thought he’d been palmed off with second-rate visitors, but the vice-regal Australians eventually got under his guard
Essays & reportage
Weaponising Pushkin
Kyle Wilson
4 September 2023
With monuments to Alexander Pushkin being removed all over Ukraine, the arrival of a bust of the poet in Canberra gains extra resonance
Essays & reportage
The strange case of Putin’s self-declared fifth column in Australia
Kyle Wilson
12 August 2020
A small but energetic group of “Australian Cossacks” has support in high places in Moscow
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