Published by The Spectator (13th March, 2014) Vladimir Putin still swears that there are no Russian troops in Crimea, so their mission is to say as little as […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
There is no moral equivalence between Moscow and Kiev
Published by The Independent (March 10th, 2014) Less than 100 yards from my hotel, the Russian flag flies over the Crimean parliament. Inside sit Russian soldiers, their faces […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Inside the lair of ‘The Goblin’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th March, 2014) Shoved to the ground by a Russian stooge, I suffered nothing more than a cut knee. But as protesters […]
Europe / Ukraine
‘I know there has been hostility but my mother is a hero’
Published in The Independent (3rd March, 2014) Yulia Tymoshenko is in a wheelchair, suffering severe pain from her back and looks frail, but her daughter Eugenia is just […]
Europe / Politics / Russia
Forget diplomacy: this was the stroppy summit
Published in The Mail on Sunday (September 8th, 2013) Welcome to the stroppy summit. Held in one of Europe’s most spectacular cities, it was designed to discuss the […]
Europe / Russia
A new Russian Revolution?
Published in the Daily Mail (December 27th, 2011) Mikhail had not been on a demonstration before. But on Saturday the 46-year-old property salesman joined tens of thousands of […]