What are tankies, vatniks, and 'useful idiots', and why do they deride traumatised Ukrainians as warmongers and Nazis?
War and Conflict
Caolan Robertson reflects on Russia's attack on a pizza restaurant hit by missiles in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, in which at least 10 people were killed
Well over half the recent migrants come from the top 15 countries globally hardest hit by explosive weaponry
Despite the odds and the heavy punishments, resistance still exists in Russia. Index on Censorship's Assistant Editor Katie Dancey-Downs talks to those who are braving it to stand up to Putin
Mark Temnycky explores the consequences on global food supplies of what appears to be yet another example of the Kremlin's ecological terrorism
Vladimir Putin is in a catch-22: unable to win any kind of 'victory' that he can sell to his domestic audience, while creating folklore about this 'special military operation'
Anna Romandash meets a disabled activist who has led the way in supporting Ukraine's disabled population during Russia's horrific invasion of the country
Concerns swirl in Whitehall around retired senior British officers looking to advise foreign governments – conflicts of interest persist even if there is no wrongdoing, writes Iain Overton
Many appear to believe it would be reasonable to offer the peninsula as some sort of final settlement of the war in Ukraine to Russia – why? asks Paul Niland
Brian Latham explores the relative success of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private military company - effectively a mining company with guns – and its clash with China in a new scramble for Africa