The rapid collapse of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime dealt a big blow to Russia’s global reputation and represents a strategic loss…
On 30 September 2015, Russia launched a military intervention in Syria after a request by the Damascus regime in its fight against the Syrian…
One of the strangest things about Russia’s war on Ukraine has been its insistence on not using the word ‘war’ for the past two years. It was called a…
Given the difficulty that Russia has had in biting off other bits of Ukraine, Moscow’s annexation of Crimea ten years ago this month seems, in…
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has been trying to dial down the temperature after an army chief and his Civil Defense Minister, Carl Oskar…