Mark Galeotti

Are we really to believe that a rambunctious cartoon character’s wardrobe choices will brainwash a generation of British toddlers?

Thank heavens that everything in the UK is going so well, that more than 50 MPs have so little to do that they can spend their time lobbying against a children’s cartoon about an unruly four-year-old and a put-upon bear because it is allegedly...

Russia has insisted on calling the Ukraine war a ‘special military operation’. There's a reason for the change

Over the weekend, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov broke a long-standing taboo, calling Vladimir Putin's so-called “special military operation” against Ukraine what is really is: a war

With each sign of pressure on Putin to end the war, there is a note of anger from the Kremlin. Brace for a violent summer in Ukraine

The conflict in Ukraine is raising fears of a return to the wild 90s in Russia, when organised crime ran riot

Russia is closely watching the new PM as the Ukraine war spirals further out of its control

Vladimir Putin just can’t keep away. Having visited Beijing in May on the heels of Donald Trump, it has been announced that the Russian leader – who has been to China more than two dozen times during his tenure as president – will lead his country’s delegation to the 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November. This apparent sign of amity, though, is actually an

Vladimir Putin has called the Su-57 fighter jet “the best in the world”, and it is marketed by Russia as its answer to the American F-35s , the jet the UK has been buying.

By hitting the Iranian cargo ship Ana in the Caspian Sea on Saturday, killing one crewman, Ukraine is deliberately seeking to connect its war with