Who ate all the Minsk pies?

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries marched on Moscow in late June, and then dramatically backed down, one thing was clear – there was...

A few days ago, I wrote that Russia was unlikely to involve itself in the Niger situation, despite Yevgeny Prigozhin’s comments...

One man unexpectedly came out of last month’s spectacle rather well: Belarus’s dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka. What was his role, really?

He feels that he can say anything he likes without consequence. He gets away with airing in public his feud with the Russian military....

The Chaplain struggles to distinguish between illusion and reality. I can’t remember the context of the following quote from Catch-22...

The conflict in Sudan has drawn some – but insufficient – attention back to Russia’s role on the African continent. That role, greatly...