Wagner should rebrand to Russian Foreign Legion, using the French model

by Rashmee

Posted on August 25, 2023


Everyone seems willing to believe the evidence of their gut instincts on the presumed death …

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BRICS for a new world order

by Rashmee

Posted on August 23, 2023


Welcome to This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new and old that resonate …

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Russia-Africa summit and blood bonds

by Rashmee

Posted on August 6, 2023 / This Week, Those Books


Welcome to the seventh instalment of This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new …

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Russia-Africa summit and blood bonds

by Rashmee

Posted on July 26, 2023 / This Week, Those Books


Welcome to the seventh instalment of This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new …

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Putin: He who must not be named

by Rashmee

Posted on June 26, 2023


Everyone’s probably heard by now about the way the Chinese behaved in the aftermath of …

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Yevgeny Prigozhin: The man who fell to earth

by Rashmee

Posted on June 25, 2023


In the film The Man Who Fell to Earth, which is based on the eponymous …

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‘Russian army goes from 2nd most powerful in the world to 2nd in Russia’

by Rashmee

Posted on June 24, 2023


One of the pithiest summaries of the confused situation in Russia as the Wagner group …

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The first Leopard tank arrived in Kyiv in a blizzard of rumours about graft

by Rashmee

Posted on February 9, 2023


On February 7, the first German Leopard 2 tank arrived in Kyiv, with another 100 …

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Putin’s naglost on Ukraine is a feature, not a bug

by Rashmee

Posted on November 25, 2022


Facing reverses on the battlefield, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is doing his worst, targeting Ukrainian …

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UN’s impotence on Ukraine underlines the need for real decolonisation – of the international architecture 

by Rashmee

Posted on November 23, 2022


The Pope’s description of Ukrainians as suffering from the “martyrdom of aggression” has come into …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK