The official line is that the doping program did not happen. The unofficial one is that everyone dopes, but only the Russians get punished
By Mark Galeotti
Overheated rhetoric encourages woolly-thinking at home and a backlash in Russia
By Mark Galeotti
When the war ended in 1988, it was not because the Soviets had been beaten on the battlefield but because they had been exhausted
By Mark Galeotti
Belarus is now directly helping migrants get into the EU and helping them cross the border into Lithuania
By Mark Galeotti
The Russians find it hard to believe that the EU really exists as an entity in its own right
By Mark Galeotti
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
