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Russia's leaders are discovering that what was accepted yesterday is regarded as intolerable today. Russia is not Egypt. And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo...

In selling warships to Russia, France's risks nourishing delusions and selling short the idea of a common EU security policy. What is the significance of France's recent...

Insults, excuses and not knowing how to say ‘sorry' should be the behaviour of children, not grown-ups. Naughty and tiresome children like insults (both overt and...

Some Soviet-style preparation for a balance of power. A deal is taking shape that would see the two biggest groups in the Parliament share the presidency of the assembly for...

Russia's revival might be Western-style pragmatism, but it might be something more sinister. Four comforting bits of conventional wisdom are as follows: 1) Russia has no...

Resuming talks with Russia before it has withdrawn its troops from Georgia would be a disaster. How slow we were to wake up to the first war of the 21st century. How long it...

As Russia enters a new era uncertain whether it will differ from the old era, experts share their expectations of Russia's new president. Dimitri Medvedev was sworn in on...

Next Sunday (2 March) Russia elects a new president. There will be no suspense, no surprises. Ever since Vladimir Putin hand-picked his deputy prime minister, Dimitri...

“If citizens show trust in Dmitry Medvedev and elect him president, I will be ready to head the government without changing the institutional powers of the president and...

“It's embarrassing that European nations – with almost two million men and women under arms – are only able, at a stretch, to deploy around 100,000 at any one...

If there are limits to the free market instincts of the EU's post-communist states, then they are to be found at Russia's border with the EU. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,...