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Russia is about to hold another presidential election. It needn’t bother

Time for an early announcement: Vladimir Putin has won the upcoming Russian presidential election on March 15–17. It’s hardly a spoiler. Russian...

Matthew Sussex

Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, Ukraine’s resistance remains remarkable. Confident initial predictions of a...

In recent weeks, US President Joe Biden has boldly referred to the United States as the world’s “indispensable nation”. But when the term was...

Some 560 days have passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We have repeatedly been reminded about the awfulness of war – the senseless waste...