International
5 December 2011
The mood has become a little anxious at the headquarters of the Occidental Club, reports John Besemeres
International
8 September 2011
With elections looming, speculation is mounting about whether Vladimir Putin or Dmitry Medvedev (or even someone else) will be the ruling establishment’s presidential…
Correspondents
11 August 2011
In Poland and Russia John Besemeres found two countries heading in quite different directions
Essays & reportage
15 June 2011
Jasmina Kijevcanin recalls more than a year spent as a humanitarian worker in the North Caucasus
International
21 April 2011
Jostling between Vladimir Putin and Dimitry Medvedev and trouble with neighbours could play out in very significant ways for Russia and its region, writes John Besemeres
Correspondents
7 January 2011
The crackdown on demonstrators in Moscow could be helping to unite the opposition, writes Robert Horvath in Moscow
International
4 January 2011
Alexander Lukashenko’s brutal crackdown looks like another win for Moscow. John Besemeres traces the latest shift in orientation by the dictatorial president of Belarus
Essays & reportage
10 November 2010
Book contract in her bag, Maria Tumarkin set out for Russia and Ukraine. All was well until people started asking questions
International
1 July 2010
Is the thaw in relations between Poland and Russia sustainable? The Polish presidential election campaign and recent trends in Russian foreign policy highlight the key factors in…
Essays & reportage
28 April 2010
One reviewer accuses the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya of being hot-headed. Why has this become a pejorative term, asks Maria Tumarkin
International
7 April 2010
Ukraine’s new president is about to pay his first visit to Washington after a widely noted sojourn in Brussels early last month. Does this mean he has shed the tag of…
International
22 October 2009
What sense can be made of the rehabilitation of the Soviet regime – and the figure of Stalin – in present-day Russia, asks Maria Tumarkin
International
15 April 2009
While controversy rages in the West over the failings of neo-liberalism, in Russia the very basis of Vladimir Putin’s “managed democracy” is under question,…
Books & arts
3 February 2009
Judith Armstrong reviews Irène Némirovsky’s novel about a terrorist and his target