Category: Central/Eastern Europe

Russia’s biggest problem? Losing the 21st century

     

Vladimir Putin looks like a blundering thug in the hollowed-out gangland to which he has reduced Russia. The Wagner Group mutiny has exposed his growing weakness https://t.co/PEg9J0bpCl pic.twitter.com/NMsHv0VgMC — The… Read more »

‘Putin’s in a zugzwang’: The beginning of the end?

     

As rattled as they may have been by an armed insurrection in a nuclear-weapons state, Russia’s friends and business partners are unlikely to abandon Vladimir Putin, according to diplomats and… Read more »