Recent moves in Syria afford Putin even more leverage over EU governments reeling from the refugee crisis.

A mix of cooperation and disagreement prevails as the Russian military wades into the mire of the Syrian civil war.

France’s unsold Mistral-class ships have found a buyer in Cairo.

Sino-Russian cooperation is a marriage of convenience, one that masks the serious disagreements which would come to light should geopolitical circumstances change.

The current political economy of Russia is failing to deliver on long-term growth economic growth.

With violations of Minsk II being reported up and down the front, Mariupol is looming large as the next flashpoint in Ukraine.

Unconfirmed sightings of Russian subs and newly assertive Russian air power is causing some Scandinavian states to re-think NATO membership.

Europe’s ‘frozen conflicts’ have taken on added importance to the Putin government in the new normal of EU-Russia relations.

The Western media has been quick to insinuate that Vladimir Putin may have had something to do with the recent killing of Boris Nemtsov, but the facts seem to suggest otherwise.

Two days into the Minsk ceasefire and it already looks like a little bit of history repeating.