Pages

▼
Sunday, 6 December 2015

Putin to sue Ukraine, whilst Merkel and Steinmeier ride to his rescue as the deadline for Minsk2 approaches.

›
As a last ditch effory to scupper Ukraine receiving IMF funding, Putin's Finance Ministry will be filing a lawsuit against Ukraine over...
Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Putin does not have time on his side.

›
Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald report that, " Russia is likely to penalise Ukrainian imports from January after EU-broke...
Thursday, 26 November 2015

Putin's world is beginning to crumble around his feet. And herein lies the danger for the rest of us.

›
The inevitable has happened. Putin, flush with success over these last years that he could use gas as a military weapon , now finds that,...
Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Sabotage in Ukraine, and Putin cynically using the fight against ISIS to gain concessions over EU sanctions.

›
In his article about the current Unkrainian Crimean blackout, Leonid Bershidsky ( right ), the founding editor of Russia's top business...
Friday, 20 November 2015

Puting fighting ISIS, whilst setting up terrorists groups in Ukraine

›
It was Winston Churchill who said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste” This is a lesson that Putin learnt in 1999, when he was prime m...
Saturday, 14 November 2015

Putin's nightmare week, and the myth of his 'frozen conflict'.

›
For Putin, this is a week that he will come to view as the worst week in his life. The 'macho' image that he has so assiduously ...
Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Putin's rebels jeopardising the ceasefire, and Federica Mogherini batting for his economic team.

›
It may sound rather illogical, but 'bad news serves as the perfect cover' for distracting attention from news that you simply do no...