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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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Almost eleven years on from the introduction of the first sanctions against Russia in February 2014, Russia is growing healthily.
At a time when Donald Trump looks set to impose trade restrictions on European goods, it makes sense to diversify.
Ukraine is too poor to join Europe on equal terms, Ian Proud writes.
Europe is falling apart at the seams and sowing the seeds of its own implosion.
If Trump is serious about ending the war in Ukraine, he must look at its origins.
The BRICS Summit in Kazan was a demonstration that Russia’s role as an important regional power within the developing world, is as strong as ever.
Wars are won by economies, not armies, Ian Proud writes.
The U.S. has the most diplomatic clout in the world and should deploy it by restarting long-overdue negotiations with Russia should Trump come to power.
It’s time, once more, to come together and talk, however difficult that is, to search for peace and reconciliation.
Six weeks after Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves made the announcement to means test winter fuel payments to the elderly, it’s the scandal that won’t go away.