The Crimea. I should have seen that coming. Last Tuesday I wrote about what I thought Putin’s next move would be. And yet I failed to foresee the tactic of taking control of the Crimea, which Russia have effectively annexed now. My folly. It’s one of those things that seem so obvious in retrospect. The […]

At the start of the Winter Olympics, I had thought that both Russia and the Ukraine would be seas of calm, all the necessary battles being postponed until Putin felt safe in the knowledge that the world wasn’t looking any longer. On this, how wrong I was. This morning, the police in Kiev have had […]

The discussions focused on finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing civil war in Syria, called the Geneva II talks and due to start in Montreux today (why not in Geneva?), have hit another snag. On Saturday the Syrian National Coalition voted to attend the talks. This was a major breakthrough as the meeting would […]