Putin

Over the past decade, Aleksei Navalny has turned into the most effective disrupter of Russian political and social life. Propelled by his unbending personal political ambition, he is now the main counterweight to the current state of things…

Il lento risveglio di una società civile, un leader sempre più autocratico, in difficoltà dentro e fuori i circoli del potere. Una congiuntura economica difficile da affrontare e un oppositore diventato ufficialmente un pericolo. Eppure,…

Joe Biden is soon to become the fifth US president to face Vladimir Putin and the first to enter the presidency without the expectation of improving relations with his Russian counterpart. Yet the possibility of a working relationship,…

2020 should have been a great year for Vladimir Putin, but, like for so many other people with big plans for this year, it is ending quite disappointingly. The year promised much in the way of maintaining Putin in power for years to come.…

What should be done with the semi-democratic, post-Soviet countries at the eastern borders? The question has haunted the EU for the last ten years, after its enlargement to ten new members in 2004. The European Neighbourhood Policy, with…