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Ian Proud

Ian Proud was a member of HM Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. From July 2014 to February 2019 Ian was posted to the British Embassy in Moscow. He was also Director of the Diplomatic Academy for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Anglo-American School of Moscow.

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January 18, 2025
Zelensky is desperately trying to provoke a Pearl Harbour moment

Zelensky wants to provoke Russia into a retaliatory strike against NATO, Ian Proud writes.

January 16, 2025
Ukraine remains locked in an economic form of Stockholm syndrome

Corruption is seldom mentioned in a daily propaganda barrage that does not permit any criticism of Ukrainian governance.

January 10, 2025
Cutting Slovakia’s gas supplies may well back-fire on Zelensky

By adding to their challenges in his bid to strike a pyrrhic blow against Russia, Zelensky may find even bigger obstacles erected against Ukraine’s bid to join the western club.

January 8, 2025
The cancellation of western mainstream debate on what’s happening in Ukraine

Western officials and journalists take numbers from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry as truer than the Gospel.

January 3, 2025
La Russia dovrebbe fare un accordo immobiliare con l’Ucraina per porre fine alla guerra?

Ian Proud propone che la Russia ceda all’Ucraina i suoi 300 miliardi di dollari di beni congelati in cambio del riconoscimento da parte ucraina delle sue rivendicazioni sulle terre che la Russia ha incorporato.

December 30, 2024
Should Russia cut a real estate deal with Ukraine to end the war?

Ian Proud proposes that Russia gives up its $300bn in frozen assets to Ukraine in return for Ukrainian recognition of its claims on lands that Russia has incorporated.

December 28, 2024
Salome Zourabichvili is a threat to Georgian democracy and should be politely ushered out on 29 December

Salome Zourabichivili plans to mount a coup d’etat by insisting that she remains the rightful ruler of Georgia.

December 22, 2024
Israel resorts to diplomatic gaslighting in its diplomatic dispute with Ireland

In seeking to defend its sovereignty and to provide security for its people, Israel can never have a blank cheque to do whatsoever it wishes.

December 22, 2024
Ya es tiempo de dejar de culpar a Rusia por los males de Europa

Demasiados europeos han caído en la mentira que si nosotros cortamos toda relación con Rusia estaríamos más seguros.

December 20, 2024
Why sanctions against Russia have failed

Almost eleven years on from the introduction of the first sanctions against Russia in February 2014, Russia is growing healthily.

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