Who ate all the Minsk pies?

The conflict in Sudan has drawn some – but insufficient – attention back to Russia’s role on the African continent. That role, greatly...

I am a bit slow to write, as usual. Yesterday’s news itself was quite remarkable. The BBC headline online blasted: RUSSIA ACCUSES UKRAINE...

This blog post is about the sentencing of Vladimir Kara-Murza, and about political prisoners in Russia and Belarus. It is also about...

I have some sympathy for Emmanuel Macron. He no doubt saw an opportunity in his state visit to China earlier this month, an opportunity...

Not Hansel, not Gretel. One of the big stories of the past week has been the leak of classified US intelligence papers. These are clearly...

One of my goals in keeping this blog is to track my thought processes and I particularly want to keep notes on any event or information...

Last weekend Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will move tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) to Belarusian territory. Meanwhile,...

The rage of Dmitry Medvedev has been noticeable. Russia’s former president was once seen as a mild-mannered politician and the vanguard...

The war did not stop through the winter months, but it slowed, and news seemed to slow too. Now there seems to be a flurry of...

The United States and Russia have given conflicting narratives of what happened yesterday in the Black Sea. No doubt more information...

US intelligence agencies, according to the New York Times, now think that a ‘pro-Ukrainian group’ sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines...

Links to earlier blog posts about Belarus.