Vladimir Putin

Not even his shocked closest allies know what drove Donald Trump’s Ukraine sell-out

As Donald Trump begins his sell out of Ukraine, one novelist reflects how, despite Putin’s brutality, Zelensky has held Ukraine together. Is Trump’s America about to change this?

A sham election has given Alexander Lukashenka a seventh term as president of Belarus. But his fate is now tied to forces beyond the ballot box

For the west, when dealing with Russia, it turned out that the Cold War was our comfort zone. But after the Berlin Wall came down, how did the Russian dream die?

The Ukraine invasion and Musk’s Twitter buyout of Twitter show how weak accountability is in authoritarian regimes and among ultra-rich tech titans

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reignited fears in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

It’s not the first time the Slovak leader allowed himself to be used as a tool of Kremlin propaganda – it won’t be the last

A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

Zelensky has done all he can. But as the final sell-out approaches, the west has not done nearly enough

A secret armada of condemned tankers is breaking sanctions by transporting Russian oil around the world. The threat to the environment is huge

Assad’s survival was Putin’s way of showing he was still a global player. When the collapse came, he was powerless to prevent it

The 23-year-old hopes to, one day, return to Russia and help make it a free country. She's certainly her father's daughter

Sweden is now a Nato member and Russia is escalating its threats against the country

Under Patriarch Kirill, Russia’s Orthodox Church has seen its power restored – but only by debasing the faith

Britain and Europe are up against an alliance of evil. Now is the time to resist Russia, and for the UK to lead by example

Călin Georgescu is a textbook post-truth politician: a conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, climate change denier, and moon landing sceptic

Giving frozen Russian assets to Ukraine would save Zelensky and send a defiant message to Trump

If you love children and happen to live in Russia, the kindest thing you could do would be not to have any

The Ukraine missile strikes he has permitted won’t change the war – but they must change minds in the EU and UK

Trump has nominated a “Russian agent of influence” to one of the most sensitive roles in US government

A rudderless EU ignored Trump’s threat and is now terrified and alone. It has two choices – go into overdrive or become irrelevant

And if he does give in to the Russian president, what will the consequences be for Ukraine and for Europe?

Russian victory spells disaster for Europe and without urgent support to Ukraine, this is inevitable

Moscow pumped huge amounts of money into Moldova’s EU vote – and lost

If Trump wins a second term, he will force Ukraine into a humiliating peace deal with Russia

Why do oligarchs – and their defamation lawyers – still have the power to silence all criticism?

The Russian leader remains an agent of chaos, and as Iran may soon find out, he only has one issue in mind – his own self-interest

The foreign secretary's language and persona during his UN address broke boundaries. Was the world listening?

The history of propaganda proves that the world should heed the warnings

The west now knows it must, and can, push back against Russia

But can a country join that is still part-occupied by Russia?