Hugh Barnes is a journalist who has covered conflicts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. He was formerly a director of democracy and conflict program at the Foreign Policy Center.
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Published in: HomeMedvedev the ApprenticeA commonplace among Russia-watchers in the West is to see Putin's eight-year presidency as a retreat into autocracy...
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Published in: HomePutin's pianoforte gas diplomacy
Edward Lucas made the interesting point on BBC Radio Four’s Start the Week this morning, that almost unnoticed amid...
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Published in: HomeStalin's war of nerves
Just been reading Andrew Nagorski's The Greatest Battle, which covers much the same ground as Rodric Braithwaite's...
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Published in: HomeThe Evil Empire Strikes Back
Say what you like about Vladimir Putin but he's full of surprises. At the end of a week in which newspaper pundits...
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Published in: HomePutin on freedom versus welfare
The start of the New Year finds Russia in bad shape, according to US democracy watchdog Freedom House, which claims...
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Published in: HomeJoining the dots
The British Council saga took another surprising twist with the news overnight that Russian traffic cops had...