Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence

The painter Ilya Repin straddled both Ukrainian and Russian cultures

A 2015 comedy starring Volodymyr Zelensky is now showing on Channel 4

War offers so much more in the way of profitable procurement than even the pandemic

Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them

Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake

There is an exodus of Muscovites with money to Tbilisi and Turkey

You can’t take a stand if you don’t know where you stand

Sooner or later a diplomatic compromise will have to be reached

This Belarusian play at the Barbican is timely and urgent