Russia’s war on journalists

Along with targeting civilians, hospitals, schools, orphanages, residential buildings and churches in Ukraine, Putin’s henchmen have also been gunning down journalists, just as they do in Russia itself where almost 50 journalists have been murdered since his criminal regime came to power.

Russian roulette

Vladimir Putin, like Josef Stalin before him, deals with his critics by murdering them, but the underlying problem – his disastrous military campaign in Ukraine – has not gone away with the death of Prigozhin.

How Putin ruined Russia

While most of Eastern Europe sloughed off Soviet domination to embrace freedom and prosperity, Russia has collapsed back into a new dark age under the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.

A very Russian revolution

The latest episode of “A Very Russian Revolution” might be over, but Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is not. Before we settle in to watch the next show, whenever it is released, we might want to put our popcorn away and stop treating Russia’s war as something that only happens on our TV screens.

Russian law v Russia’s people

Putin’s weaponisation of Russian law to crush political freedom has been accelerated by his disastrous invasion of UIkraine, and though his plan to rebuild the Soviet Union in terms of territory lies in ruins, he is on the way to recreating the repressive excesses of the Soviet-era police-state.

Why Russia’s running out of men

Having lost the cream of its army in the quagmire of Ukraine, Putin is desperately trying to recruit, conscript or bribe 500,000 more men to give their lives for his vanity. Unsurprisingly, he’s finding it a difficult task.

Russia’s ‘Victory Day’ rings hollow

President Putin and his Soviet forebears have always used Russia’s defeat of Nazi Germany to stoke nationalism and buttress their own regime, but this year’s parade will be scaled back as Russian losses mount in Ukraine and the regime fears public protests against it.

The sorry story of Russia

A new book places Putin is his historical context, noting that Russia has always been an imperialist, expansionist power, determined to conquer as much territory as its brutal, backward, authoritarian culture will allow.

Russia casts its pall over Moldova

Russia is using the same poisonous lies and aggressive rhetoric it used to justify its invasions of Georgia and Ukraine against the small neighbouring state of Moldova.

The Russia problem

Russia’s ‘all-out military aggression against Ukraine’ is the latest escalation in Russia’s long, clandestine war with the West and must be confronted on the battlefield, writes Keir Giles in his new book “Russia’s War on Everybody and What It Means for You”.

Fracturing Russia could collapse

Putin’s gamble to eradicate Ukraine and humiliate the west has backfired spectacularly, calling into question the future of Russia itself.

The corporate exodus from Russia

While some global and domestic companies – not least Australia’s Canva – are still doing business with Russia, a swathe of corporate pull outs in the wake of intense public pressure to do the right thing is increasing the economic and social pressure on Putin’s criminal regime.