Unlike economic sanctions, kicking out known and suspected KGB officers has no real cost to us
By Mark Galeotti
The Russian dissident is transforming from a politician to an icon
By Mark Galeotti
The Kremlin’s paranoia is the result of imperial collapse
By Mark Galeotti
This is a warning to the Kremlin that the US intelligence community has a detailed grasp of what is being done by Russia
By Mark Galeotti
This is a time for the West to formulate serious consequences for Moscow if it launches a full offensive
By Mark Galeotti
We need to make sure we can tell the difference between a Bond film and real life
By Mark Galeotti
A handful of personal sanctions are not going to change the trajectory of Putin’s state
By Mark Galeotti
Statue-restoring in Russia may well be signaling of a rather different kind
By Mark Galeotti
He has inspired a ‘coalition of the fed up’
By Mark Galeotti
The Russian opposition leader rang up one of his would-be assassins and got him to confess on tape
By Mark Galeotti
Russians have learnt to be suspicious of bullish official claims
By Mark Galeotti
Putin is trying to mobilize the so-called Great Patriotic War in his drive to assert his country’s greatness
By Mark Galeotti
Putin has no affection for Lukashenko, a man who for years played Russia against the EU
By Mark Galeotti
It is not that Putin necessarily wants to rule until he is 84
By Mark Galeotti
