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Explainer: What is the UK’s Kleptocracy Problem? 

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 By Amelie Singleton

The growing geopolitical instability begs the question of how the UK is going to protect itself and allies from enabling its adversaries.  

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This Week in PMQs:  Ukraine and the Economy 

March 15, 2025March 15, 2025 By Phineas Horan

This week, mounting pressure from MPs forces the government to take a stand, pushing for Putin’s prosecution and the return of abducted Ukrainian children as part of a potential peace deal with Russia.

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This Week in PMQs: Ukraine-US Relations, Defence and Breakfast Clubs

March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 By Phineas Horan

The Prime Minister’s Questions are normally a raucous event and good spectator sport, however the mood in the house this week was solemn and unsmiling in its discussion Trump and Ukraine.

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Why Europe Should be Paying Close Attention to Georgia

January 22, 2025January 21, 2025 By Amelie Singleton

If Europe’s inaction on the Georgian election is interpreted by Russia as a green-light, the future of democratic elections may be at risk. 

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Explainer: Geopolitical Poker in Ukraine – A Week of Escalations

November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 By Joshua Robinson

The ongoing war in Ukraine is one of bluffs, raises and daring calls. This week was no exception and if anything, these key

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Opposing Putin: The Death of Alexei Navalny

February 27, 2024March 2, 2024 By Ruby Fry

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died this week, thus reemphasising the difficulty of speaking out in Putin’s Russia. Navalny was a Russian anti-corruption

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Sanctions to Russian oligarchs, a hypocritical gesture by the Conservatives? – A caricature

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 By Will Grosse

It is not to say that sanctioning UK-based oligarchs won’t damage Putin’s war machine – crippling the Russian economy is crucial to slowing

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The Russo-Ukrainian Crisis – A Caricature

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 By Will Grosse

This week, regular contributor Will Grosse produced a caricature portraying the current situation between Russia and Ukraine. The 2021-2022 Russo-Ukrainian Crisis is just

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