Vladimir Putin related content 

A tale of spying gone wrong could have serious ramifications for those trying to hold the authorities to account. As Russia's election on 4 March draws near, the Kremlin...

Lithuania's foreign minister enjoys a scrap. One would think that, for a small country integrated into the heavyweight machinery of alliances such as the EU and NATO, foreign...

Protesters are back on the streets of Moscow, but the rest of the world does not seem to care. Twenty years ago, the new democratic leaders of Russia were left to be dragged...

Leaders have gloated over the failings of others' economies – only to see their own economies slip on banana skins. The protracted financial and economic crisis discredited...

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...

Why the size of Viktor Orbán's majority no longer seems such a strong guarantee of support. EU threatens action When the Hungarian government recently decided to...

The Ukrainian authorities must be made to understand that Ukraine will enjoy underlying stability only if it is democratic. Democratic change in the European Union's...

Today's protests against Russia's leadership have strong echoes of the demonstrations of 20 years ago. The Russian Federation of today is not the Soviet Union of 1991. But...

Heard the one about the fair elections conducted in the Second World War in which Stalinist loyalists won? A ‘let-bygones-be-bygones' approach to history has the advantage...

EU-Russia summit raises some inportant questions. Next week's summit meeting between the European Union and Russia comes hard on the heels of disgraceful parliamentary...

Answering a question not addressed in a European Commission paper on energy security. The European Commission's long-awaited communication on EU energy security policy,...

Dmitry Medvedev offered an illusion of change. Now that the illusion has been dispelled, what policy should the West follow? The prospect of 12 more years of Vladimir Putin...

Pipeline brings Russian gas to western Europe. The Nord Stream pipeline bringing Russian gas under the Baltic Sea to western Europe is expected to start working in October....

The UK prime minister's visit to Moscow also reveals much about the EU's relationship with Russia. David Cameron makes his first visit to Russia to meet his opposite number,...

Calls for compensation for farmers hit by losses because of outbreak. The number of cases of E. coli infection continues to rise, according to German health authorities.

The EU has a unique opportunity to prove whether it regards the relationship with Ukraine as a strategic priority Your recent article by Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former...

EU's ‘unbundling' policy criticised during EU-Russia meeting. Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, and José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European...

Today's meeting between the Russian government and the European Commission is a sign of maturing partnership. Another tradition is being established within the framework of...

Russian prime minister to meet senior EU officials. Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, is to ask the European Union's most senior officials to scrap visa requirements...

Russia's presidential election may prove messy for Russia but unusually quiet for the EU. Vladimir Putin has not been a frequent visitor to Brussels. In almost 12 years as...