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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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It is time to embrace moderate nationalism in foreign policy
Western leaders wake up to the realisation that President Zelensky isn’t a corruption fighting democrat after all.
Trolling on X takes a new and sinister turn, Ian Proud writes.
He now has fifty days to reach agreement on Ukrainian neutrality
More sanctions will only ever embolden Russia to keep fighting rather than making peace.
A revolution of common sense is starting in Budapest. In a multipolar world, Europe needs to become internally multipolar or risk falling apart.
Let’s do what we’ve been doing for a decade and hope for a different result
No one will be scared by the UK Strategic Defence Review but British people should be
Friedrich Merz won’t survive a single term in office and France will be the next country to exit the EU, triggering an implosion of the project.
Progress on return of 339 children might still be a helpful step in the right direction