Mary Dejevsky

There can be no doubt that the end of Assad’s rule in Syria has weakened Russia’s position in the Middle East and dented Moscow’s international standing, such as it is.

Why is Starmer flogging Britain’s national heritage to a Czech oligarch?

The UK government – a Labour government, no less, with a huge parliamentary majority – has given the go-ahead for a Czech billionaire to buy Royal Mail for £3.6 billion. Yes, that’s correct. A foreign businessman, an oligarch by any other name, with the classic combination of interests in energy, communications and football, is about to buy one of the UK’s oldest and most recognisable public institutions – and almost no one has turned a hair.

The Pelicot trial was billed as proof of the depths to which men’s treatment of women can plunge – but it may not have quite the resonance that many women hope, says Mary Dejevsky

The one-term president's humiliation by Iranian revolutionaries kicked off a decades-long American grudge,

The New Year truck attack may be a harbinger of revived Islamist terrorism on US soil, but it is also a rebuke to Joe Biden’s failed foreign policy – and, says Mary Dejevsky, an unforeseen and unwelcome red flag for the incoming administration

Many nations have tried to plead their case with the incoming US president, writes Mary Dejevsky. But the Canadian PM’s attempt to square him in advance may have been a costly mistake

...but while Donald Trump is already positioning himself as the great peacemaker, the chaos is far from over – not least if Netanyahu’s government falls, writes Mary Dejevsky

If the roll-call of hard-right European politicians at the US president’s inauguration was anything to go by, we are about to find out quite how far his sphere of influence reaches, says Mary Dejevsky