AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatar6 hours agoUkraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russiaverified_publisherThe EconomistA guard looks on nervously. With every step, the air thickens with the smell of petrol. Around a corner is the workshop, and the buzz of …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatar6 hours agoUkraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensiveverified_publisherThe EconomistThe sunken faces that peer from behind battered fences are aged, whether or not the bodies that carry them are old. Russia, eight kilometres away, …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatar6 hours agoHow Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macronverified_publisherThe EconomistON JANUARY 16th the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced that he would send another 40 long-range Scalp cruise missiles to Ukraine. Later …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatar6 hours agoThe German chancellor’s awkward meeting with China’s bossverified_publisherThe EconomistAn official Chinese read-out said the summit meeting in Beijing that ended on April 16th reflected the strong ties that bind the world’s second- and …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatar1 day agoHow a conservative conference morphed into a crisis of liberalismverified_publisherThe EconomistOne of the few benefits of Britain leaving the European Union, at least for denizens of Brussels, was that Nigel Farage all but disappeared from the …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatar2 days agoGermany is flunking the education testverified_publisherThe EconomistFROM MAY 1st, the proud holders of doctorates will no longer be allowed to put the title Dr in front of their name in German passports. For a country …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatar3 days agoAs Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western supportverified_publisherThe EconomistNOT MANY non-Russians know Russia as well as Oleksandr Lytvynenko. Ukraine’s new national security chief spent five formative years in Moscow as a …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatarRussia’s ferocious glide-bomb campaignverified_publisherThe EconomistFOR THE past year, Russia has been stepping up its use of glide bombs. In recent months both the size of the bombs and the rate at which they are …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatarRussia is struggling to find its missing soldiersverified_publisherThe EconomistKAMONIN ALEKSANDROVICH disappeared in the Donetsk region in winter. On February 22nd last year, as Ukraine repelled Russian assaults along the front …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatarAustria’s accidental hard-right leaderverified_publisherThe Economist“If a party is a boat then I prefer to be in the engine-room rather than at the captain’s dinner.” Thus spoke Herbert Kickl when Heinz-Christian …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatarIf Ukraine losesverified_publisherThe EconomistTo ask “what if Ukraine loses?” was once a tactic favoured by those looking to berate its Western allies into sending more money and weapons. …
AvatarThe EconomistAvatarAvatarWhat happens if Ukraine loses?verified_publisherThe EconomistTo ask “what if Ukraine loses?” was once a tactic favoured by those looking to berate its Western allies into sending more money and weapons. …