“NATO countries are following developments with the utmost care as a prelude to their eagerly awaited summit in Vilnius next month. If Putin’s rule in the Kremlin really begins to falter, perhaps everything should be put into overthrowing it completely”. Vienna What is going on in Russia barely a year and a half into
“As I come to the end of this column the sirens of Odesa announce that one more a Russian airstrike is approaching. For a while, I am out of the welfare machine, into the true human condition. What a gift.” Odesa It is in the nature of the column that it can – without exaggeration
“Both a civil war and Russia’s disintegration into half a dozen nation-states are conceivable. A compromise must be ruled out. It would by its very nature compromise the security of the West, like the Munich Agreement of 1938, the great and disastrous betrayal of the 20th century”. Chisinau In Moldova’s fine, small capital, the peace