Who ate all the Minsk pies?

Belarus hosted a CSTO summit in Minsk last week. Fractures between members of the military bloc are hard to paper over however.

If anyone doubts how far the Russia-Ukraine war has fallen down the agenda, look at the coverage of the Biden-Xi Jinping press conference.

A recent decree will make many Belarusians stateless. The opposition is trying to convince others its New Belarus passport is the solution.

Forty years ago this week the world came close to nuclear war. NATO's Able Archer exercise very nearly went very wrong.

An essay, of sorts, on war.

I've heard some pretty off-the-wall claims over the past week. The authors of this article think the fact that Hamas attacked Israelis on...

Open Democracy published a ‘rebuttal’ to my recent article for them. I knew that a response was coming and I welcome the challenge to the...

This is part two of my roundup of things I might have written more about. I'm leaving out the calls for Russia to be stripped of its...

One of the biggest challenges since I started this blog is that there is so much going on in, or otherwise affecting, eastern Europe and...

With his collar suit and Mao-styled haircut, Kim Yong-Un conjures an image of China... Frankly, I think the summit's significance is slight.

A spate of media stories, beginning a week and a half ago, suggested that Ukraine’s counteroffensive was ‘failing’. Then followed stories...

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries marched on Moscow in late June, and then dramatically backed down, one thing was clear – there was...

Yes, this really does involve Stormtroopers, but not quite yet. When I started this blog, one of my (many) ideas for content was to...

A few days ago, I wrote that Russia was unlikely to involve itself in the Niger situation, despite Yevgeny Prigozhin’s comments...

I’ve been away on a summer holiday and somewhat detached from the news. Still, I did skim through a newspaper each morning and there was...

I am not usually one to throw caution to the wind, but I am rethinking my position on the rhetoric round nuclear weapons.

NATO’s annual summit has been and gone. The national delegations have returned to their home countries, dispersing like a bag of marbles...

When NATO meets in Vilnius for its annual summit next week, Ukraine will rightly dominate the agenda. The lack of consensus within NATO abou

One man unexpectedly came out of last month’s spectacle rather well: Belarus’s dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka. What was his role, really?

He feels that he can say anything he likes without consequence. He gets away with airing in public his feud with the Russian military....