Russia
Could Russia have kompromat on John Bolton?
A former spy addresses ancient, unconfirmed claims that the National Security Adviser visited a sex club in the 1980s
Trust me I’m a Russia hawk – the Democrats are going too far
Kamala Harris’s Russiagate theory is pure conjecture
Christopher Wylie is a hypocrite
His new job at H&M is hypocrisy on steroids
Can you trust Michael Cohen?
A mysterious $50,000 payment begs some questions
Donald Trump, the Kremlin and the ghost of Alger Hiss
The anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ ought to prepare itself for disappointment, since the unclassified version of the Mueller report will be lacking in detail
Who poses a greater threat to the West: China or Russia?
By the time the West finds itself in open conflict with Beijing, we will have lost our relative advantage
The Prague delusion
The Central European city is the last stop for the resistance fantasy
In defense of Maria Butina
It seems entirely plausible that her biggest crime was networking
Is the Cohen-in-Prague mystery about to be revealed at last?
Trump’s fixer has always denied a meeting took place
Has Saudi Arabia just pivoted towards Russia?
What does Michael Cohen’s guilty plea mean for the Mueller investigation?
Trump Tower Moscow wasn’t off the cards during the campaign
Does Putin intend to go to war with Ukraine?
He may have underestimated Petro Poroshenko’s stomach for a fight
Putin turns up the heat on Ukraine – again
Kiev must re-focus the world’s attention on Moscow’s continuing aggression against them
Mueller is coming – and Trump can do nothing to stop him
What exactly Trump seeks to hide, and how Russian it is, has fallen to Bob Mueller and his cadre of seasoned investigators to unravel
When justice is a PR stunt
Why are the FBI bothering to indict Elena Khusyaynova?
How Bellingcat outfoxes the world’s spy agencies
The inside story of how it got the Skripal scoop
From Russia Today with love
I wish we were sophisticated enough to be a covert brainwashing exercise
Laughing at the ineptitude of some Russian spies ignores how dangerous most are
The GRU is not a maverick service
What Putin and Trump understand about UFC
There is no political correctness in cage fighting. But that’s not to say it’s not political
Of course Russians have a sense of humour – just look at the Salisbury ‘tourists’
The two Russians may not have been much of a joke. But British viewers fell on their lacklustre performance with delight
Putin is at it again – this time with the midterms
If both Republicans and Democrats are being targeted, that’s because Putin doesn’t care who wins
What will Michael Cohen tell the FBI now?
As Manafort faces life in jail, he must regret not flipping on his old boss. Cohen did not make that mistake
How important is Christopher Steele’s libel win against the owners of a Russian bank?
It is a well-known tactic of oligarchs to use the courts to try to silence critics
Did the Russian mafia help Trump along his way to the Oval Office?
House of Trump, House of Putin by Craig Unger reviewed.
What if the dreaded ‘pee tape’ is real?
A small-town Colorado newspaper may have stumbled on news of Trump’s kompromat.