A year of despair and defiance

Russian President Putin thought he would overrun Ukraine in a few days. As the war raging for the last 12 months has proved, these military volunteers and their fellow Ukrainians ‘had other ideas.’

Parades and Patriarchs in Putin’s Russia

Vladimir Putin is using a potent mix of patriotism, xenophobia, religious fervour and nostalgia for the power of the Soviet Union to maintain popular support for his failed invasion of Ukraine.