contributors
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.
all articles
Zelensky wants to provoke Russia into a retaliatory strike against NATO, Ian Proud writes.
Corruption is seldom mentioned in a daily propaganda barrage that does not permit any criticism of Ukrainian governance.
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.
Western officials and journalists take numbers from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry as truer than the Gospel.
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.
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.
Salome Zourabichivili plans to mount a coup d’etat by insisting that she remains the rightful ruler of Georgia.
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.
Demasiados europeos han caído en la mentira que si nosotros cortamos toda relación con Rusia estaríamos más seguros.
Almost eleven years on from the introduction of the first sanctions against Russia in February 2014, Russia is growing healthily.