Owen Matthews

Russia, Europe and the US all face a common enemy in the form of Islamist terror

His regime’s survival has come at the cost of hollowing out Russia’s future, crushing the hope of change

It was here at the Polar Wolf that the Putin regime, with its rigid deafness to irony, chose to imprison the opposition leader

If Putin’s intention is to break Ukrainians’ morale by bombing them into submission, it’s not working

His life and career were living proof that Putin had not yet entirely extinguished Russians’ spirit of freedom and defiance