Vladimir Putin

The West missed warning after warning when it comes to Putin. We mustn't fall into the same trap with his peers

The establishment, where the Russian leader developed a liking for German beer, has now also taken down its shrine to the president

The exiled head of Belarus’s shadow government explains why Alexander Lukashenko must be sanctioned for his part in the invasion of Ukraine

Putin’s horrific aggression will prove a turning point in the history of our continent

Were Putin to remain intransigent and the current negotiations turn out to be just an elaborate ruse, then the UN should reserve the right to shift to more of a peace enforcing role

The vicious conflict in Ukraine could lead to even more deaths from hunger far beyond the country’s borders as grain exports from the region grind to a halt and global food prices soar

If Hobbes is right, perhaps the only way to maintain peace is to have a powerful world organisation that can enforce international laws and punish states that break them

And, the West cannot risk letting the Russian dictator playing it

Xi Jinping once called Vladimir Putin his best friend. But is their relationship cooling as he realises how much his country stands to lose over Ukraine?

Too many Russians have fallen for Putin’s propaganda over Ukraine. It won’t stop his regime falling apart – but that could take years

It is now blindingly obvious that the EU must step up and take responsibility for its own collective security, argues one reader

The observation that military force has become less important in how nations wield power was more credible pre-invasion

Former Today editor Sarah Sands still wants to go into business with the Tory party's co-chair

The Russian oligarch should have got out years ago - now the club I love is in limbo

DR ROBERT KRAMER, professor of psychoanalysis at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, explains the drive for immortality that brought war to Ukraine

Already in financial crisis, Turkey is heavily dependent on Russia for fuel, food and tourism money. Is this a tipping point for its president?

Absolute power makes you think you can do what you like, where you like, how you like. It is a power no truly democratic leader will ever enjoy

The Kremlin strongman is now an isolated, out-of-touch world pariah and increasingly unpopular at home. Could he be toppled?

Two 1990s films made by a future Putin ally explain the national obsession with humiliation that led to Ukraine

If we don't stop with sanctions and retool our economy, we will be even more complicit in the next atrocity we enable

While Putin's invasion challenges not only Ukraine's democracy but our own democratic system, we have found ourselves in a war between truth and lies

There is something troubling about many men at the moment, and it's about time someone said it

The meeting revealed a man more confident than autocratic, not the brittle and paranoid aggressor the world sees today

Putin must be seen by the world to lose. But, how this will happen and how long it will take remain difficult questions

Boris Johnson's posturing following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine hasn't distracted the country, or his own party, from his lies

Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine is a watershed moment. But the democratic West's response has been encouragingly robust

Putin is the bad actor in the invasion of Ukraine, but we need to examine the role the West has played in allowing events to unfold

The shadows of the heavily redacted, much delayed 2020 Russia Report and London’s reputation as a laundromat for dirty money are clouding the prime minister’s insistence that Britain is “out in front” in this global crisis

In order to defend the best of Western tradition, we have to redefine it

EU leaders have failed to agree on the proposal of holding a summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin in the near future.  It is not yet clear whether this proposed summit would include all 27 leaders or only Ursula von der Leyen, the EU’s chief executive, and Charles Michel, its chairman.  Leaders’ decision to reject […]