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With about two-thirds of Ukraine’s energy-generating capacity destroyed, damaged, or seized, its people are likely to be left in the cold and dark this winter. A rapid response is required.
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May 29, 2024
Western Investors in Russia Tremble in the Storm’s Eye
The world’s most powerful democracies are moving ever closer to expropriating more than $300bn in Russian assets to aid Ukraine. This comes at a price.
May 29, 2024
An Anglo-French Deterrent for European NATO — But Everyone Has to Pay
Europe’s nuclear deterrence is fragmented, obsolete, underfinanced, and has not adapted to a new geopolitical environment. Can it be reorganized to deter Russia?
May 28, 2024
China and Russia Issue Nuclear Warnings
The leaders of Russia and China have jointly shifted their stance on nuclear weapons, signaling a move away from decades of cautious Chinese thinking.
May 28, 2024
Women Next on the Hit List as Putin Seeks to Neuter Opposition
After being sworn in for his fifth term, Vladimir Putin is aiming to silence the women leading protests against his war in Ukraine.
May 28, 2024
Showdown: Britain’s Election
The cross-party consensus is comforting but complacent.
May 28, 2024
Blood and Memory — How War Unifies Ukrainians
The terrible realities of war have brought profound changes to the outlook of Ukrainians. It’s hard to see them ever changing back to a Russophile worldview.
May 23, 2024
Russia’s Military Shaken as Top-Level Purge Unfolds
A high-level military purge is underway in Moscow, and gathering pace.
May 23, 2024
Rogue Russia Menaces Humanity’s Future in Outer Space
The Kremlin’s reckless behavior on a range of activities in outer space must bring a severe Western response. If Russia loses its status as a space superpower, it will have only itself to blame.
May 22, 2024
Ukraine’s Crime Chroniclers: Keeping the Flame of Justice Alive
It's been two years since the Ukrainian army liberated the little towns to the northwest of Kyiv but work to identify the Russian killers continues.