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Vladimir Putin

Dual Narratives

The crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 near Aktau, Kazakhstan, has exposed grave risks associated with civilian aviation in conflict zones.

Sanction politics

Influential voices in the US policy making establishment have, in the wake of the mercenary Wagner Group’s march almost to…

Brics summit

South Africa has extricated itself from a potentially embarrassing situation with Russian president Vladimir Putin having decided not to attend the Brics summit to be held in Johannesburg next month. The decision followed extensive consultations between the two countries, including discussions between South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa and Mr Putin last month.

What next?

The cracks in the ‘bromance’ between the world’s two most powerful, autocratic strongmen President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia that appeared in the aftermath of the Wagner rebellion, the most significant challenge to the latter’s authority in two decades, appear to have widened.