Is Russia a European country, or a unique civilization of its own? This question has divided Westernizers and Slavophiles since at least the middle of the nineteenth century, and has often had what…

My recent mention of the positivist/idealist divide in pre-revolutionary Russian liberalism led to a bit of a discussion in the comment section about the source of morality. One version of the posi…

If anyone still doubts whether former US president Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election, new revelations this week should put the question to bed for good, with an FBI document showing it to be a fabrication.

“Mr President, we must not allow … a mine shaft gap!” General Buck Turgidson. Back in my youth, as an officer of the British Army of the Rhine, the “gap” we tended to worry about was the “Fulda Gap…

Today, to mark Remembrance Day, I give you ‘Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins’ by the great Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall (famed author of ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’).…

News that Ukraine’s English-language paper the Kyiv Post will be shuttered led to an outcry from journalists this week. In contrast, previous assaults on media freedom have gone unremarked upon, and the double standard is clear.

I have had a couple more pieces published in RT in the last two days. One concerns the probably temporary closure of the Kyiv Post and why it seems to have provoked immense outrage whereas the prev…

Two of the things that bug me about those who prattle on endlessly about foreign “disinformation” are a) the extent to which they themselves are guilty of disinformation and b) their inability to s…

As tensions rise on the Polish-Belarusian border, the UK is pointing the finger at Russia, sounding the alarm over a potential war and threatening to send troops to Ukraine. It’s impossible not to wonder who is destabilizing whom.

A while back I read a 1999 article entitled “Grigorii Yavlinskii: The Man Who Would Be King.” In 1999, it still seemed possible that Yavlinsky, the leader of the liberal Yabloko party, might rise t…

News that Russia has tested an anti-satellite missile has sparked concern for spacecraft and, more worryingly, highlighted the lack of international treaties regulating space weapons, meaning the cosmos is becoming a battleground.

If you want to know how reliable journalists and TV talking heads are, look at their record when it comes to the biggest stories of the past decade: Iraq’s purported ‘weapons of mass destruction’ or the invasion of Afghanistan.

In my last book review, I discussed the issue of American propaganda. So it was with a certain amount of interest that I came across an example of such propaganda in action in a book I was reading …

While commentators spilled ink over the prospect of war between Russia & Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin last week took a major step towards absorbing the war-torn breakaway Donbass regions. And yet, bizarrely, nobody noticed.

In recent years, governments have created armies of online warriors designed to fact-check alleged Russian ‘disinformation.’ Worryingly, these guardians of the truth are often more dangerous than the threat they claim to combat.

I was going to write today about a new report by a British think tank called the Council on Geostrategy, but then I came across something even worse (I know, it’s difficult, but it’s true!). …

Responsible journalism is a delicate balance. Reporters need to expose misdeeds, but avoid unjust accusations. A high-profile case involving a British reporter and a Russian billionaire shows the press doesn’t always get it right.

“The Dogs of War” are loose and the rugged Russian Bear,Full bent on blood and robbery, has crawl’d out of his lair;It seems a thrashing now and then, will never help to tameThat …

To simplify the issue enormously, but somewhat fairly, it's fair to say that the current divide splitting Western foreign policy analysts at a time of increasing global tensions is whether they are realists, or idealists.