The president’s inflammatory rhetoric is informed by two centuries of Russian nationalist thought centring on a distrust of Europe and a mission to recover all the lands of “Ancient Rus”

Berlin’s Russian blunders

His legacy impresses and frustrates

Neither territorial concessions nor unrealistic dreams of toppling Putin can secure lasting peace

How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?

Can the Argentinian pontiff make a difference in Ukraine?

Gergiev’s road to redemption

Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans

Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them

Campaign Diary: Evidence of Russian war crimes found in Bucha