World views from the author of First with the News, a memoir of life on the front line

Putin will tough it out and survive. But lurking behind him, waiting and wondering and possiby plottling, are the KGB mafia who keep Putin i...

So now the reckoning begins. There was never any chance that Vladimir Putin would just sit in the Kremlin and say to everyone: "Let...

Ultimately Putin's long-term survival as leader in the Kremlin will depend on his inner circle of elite billionaires and former KGB part...

America’s last stocks of mustard gas and nerve agents developed for a chemical weapons confrontation with the Soviet Union in the Cold War a...

Vladimir Putin's inevitable political demise has been predicted by almost everyone, following the sort-of coup attempt by Wagner boss Ye...

With the thug boss of the Wagner Group out of the running for the moment, exiled to Belarus and neutered, politically and militarily, who wi...

Vladimir Putin has had a helluva scare from which he may not recover fully. A convoy of mercenary Wagner Group armoured vehicles heading for...