Vladimir Putin
Projecting the Kremlin line
For The Guardian, Seumas Milne's recent output on Russia must present a terrible quandary
The EU must be more vocal in its criticism of Vladimir Putin
While European governments have taken action against Russia's violations of Ukrainian sovereignty, too little is being done about its violations of the rights and freedoms of its own population.
The five worst MH17 conspiracy theories
The Russian media, seemingly propped up by a rag-tag band of cyber conspiracy theorists, has been indulging some pretty bonkers stuff.
Most Ukrainians prefer Europe over Russia
Ukrainians are a lot less pro-Russian than the separatists in the East of the country would like the outside world to believe.
So much for Alex Salmond the champion of equality
Salmond's admiration for Vladimir Putin demonstrates once again that there is nothing left-wing about the SNP, writes James Bloodworth.
The West’s responsibility for the Ukrainian crisis
The threat of war hanging over Ukraine is the ugly offspring of the West’s longstanding enabling of Russian imperialism, writes Marko Attila Hoare.