Vladimir Putin

We raise our thumbs and shake our heads at some of the week’s news

Putin has dealt a punishing blow to Ukrainian independence. NATO’s inaction may only embolden him to do more.

Andrew MacDougall, ex of the PMO, imagines a letter from the PM to the Russian president

Time to bring out the really effective tools: mockery, derision, deflation.

Lobbing rockets across an international border is generally considered an act of war

Why even the condemnation that’s followed the downing of Flight MH17 won’t slow Putin’s ambitions.

His sulky, disdainful behaviour puts a damper on the 70th anniversary

New law would punish anyone who denigrates Russia’s second World War record

Elections reveal the far right is dead in Ukraine. The European Union is a different story.

As Kyiv fights back against pro-Russian separatists, a civil war now looms—just as Putin had planned