UKRAINE UPDATE: 18 MARCH 2024 Putin secures record election win; Germany, France lead call for more EU defence funding 5 min 1 By Bloomberg
RUSSIA ELECTIONS Putin set to tighten grip on power despite noon protest by opponents 3 min 0 By Reuters
THE GATHERING 2024 Putin’s nemesis Bill Browder calls on South Africans to push for a Magnitsky Act in the lead-up to 2024 elections 4 min 22 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
UKRAINE UPDATE: 14 MARCH 2024 Drones strike three Russian refineries; EU tentatively backs €5bn Kyiv weapons fund 8 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 13 MARCH 2024 EU to discuss €3bn plan on Russian frozen funds; Pentagon to send $300m in weapons to Kyiv 7 min 0 By Bloomberg
AFRICAN DIGITAL DEMOCRACY OBSERVATORY How Russia uses education as effective influential soft power tool to gain ground in Africa 6 min 0 By Mitchelle Awuor, Moffin Njoroge and Chike Odita
UKRAINE UPDATE: 12 MARCH 2024 Kyiv halts Moscow’s offensive - Zelensky; deadlock shifts war momentum in Russia’s favour - US spies 5 min 0 By Bloomberg
By Gerrit Olivier The rise of repressive right-wing Russian nationalism under Vladimir Putin 6 min 2 10 March 2024
UKRAINE UPDATE: 8 FEBRUARY 2024 Sweden finally joins Nato in Baltic boost; Germany and UK resist Putin’s bid to sow discord 5 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 4 MARCH 2024 Kyiv braced for disinformation attacks on Zelensky; Seven killed in drone strike on Odesa 5 min 0 By Bloomberg
WAR IN EUROPE AD 2024 as 1938 – Why a Russian victory would be bad for most Africans 10 min 13 By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
REFLECTION Two years on, it’s clear Russia will not stop at Ukraine – unless it is stopped 8 min 2 By Ronnie Apteker
UKRAINE UPDATE: 23 FEBRUARY 2024 Macron calls for European talks on Kyiv aid; US to impose fresh sanctions on Iran 6 min 0 By Bloomberg
ANC & RUSSIA ANALYSIS To Russia with Love and Hopeless Devotion, from Fikile Mbalula and the ANC 7 min 73 By Peter Fabricius
ANALYSIS Russia’s lost Alexei Navalny’s drive for sanity but his spirit lives on 8 min 3 By J Brooks Spector
By Liubov Abravitova Poor show: When Tucker Carlson met his hero, Vladimir Putin 9 min 11 20 February 2024
AGE OF THE ASSASSIN ‘We know exactly why Putin killed Alexey’: Yulia Navalnaya pledges to continue her husband’s work 3 min 6 By Meduza
By Natale Labia Why the world should worry about a second Trump US presidency 3 min 28 18 February 2024
EFFECTIVE DIPLOMACY OP-ED Here’s what a South African foreign policy should look like 7 min 25 By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
