President Erdoğan will celebrate his deliverance from last night’s coup as a triumph of “democracy”. We need not necessarily join the celebration.

Lenin once observed that in some decades nothing happens, and in some weeks, decades happen. That is the position in which Brexit Britain finds itself today.

Foreigners are clearly no longer exempt from the depredations of the Russian state.

To fund his security state, the Russian President appears to be encouraging his siloviki to extract more resources from the business sector on the side.

Can religion be presented in an objective and theologically neutral way, be it for educational or entertainment purposes?

Former Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin, on the outs with Putin, is trying to buy back his respectability by financing his own Kremlin-aligned think tank. It might be working.

A well-timed Washington Post bombshell has revealed just how wide the gulf is between Russia and the United States.

Some might call it “dominance geopolitics”. Will the White House let it slide?

The best-off have lost a lot of money in the last year, a new study shows.

As democratic progress stalls around the world, what is required on both sides of the Atlantic is the emergence of political leaders who are both hard-nosed and morally responsible. If only one could advertise!