WASHINGTON — Has Vladimir Putin lost touch with reality? Once widely viewed as a cunning, if ruthless, but ultimately rational actor, the Russian president is now isolated and increasingly paranoid, ...

They contained the secrets of the Soviet Union’s vast financial empire – including details of payments to communist-linked parties abroad – all overseen by the KGB. Routed through so-called “friendly ...

All but the least attentive in the United States are familiar with the broad outlines of the story: Around 1990, or perhaps earlier, shady characters associated with the Russian mafia or the Russian ...

Thank heavens for coronavirus! I know I shouldn’t say that but there are some small blessings in the current pandemic. In Russia, the national referendum to extend Vladimir Putin’s stay in office for ...

Journalist Catherine Belton called for the UK Government to follow through on its promise to crack down on libel threats designed to intimidate journalists as she was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s ...

HarperCollins and Catherine Belton have settled their dispute with Roman Abramovich over certain passages in Putin’s People (William Collins) about the reasons for the Russian billionaire’s purchase ...

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IFEX joins civil society organisations in expressing serious concern at the legal proceedings that are being brought against journalist and author Catherine Belton and her publisher HarperCollins.

ZON: With all that in mind, let us now jump back to the Germany of today. There’s Matthias Warnig, a former Stasi captain, and as you say close friend to Vladimir Putin, who until recently, had been ...

Catherine Belton: I'm afraid it's not, clearly not, having too much impact on Putin's own calculus. And I guess the question is really: To what degree is he now just acting all by himself? Because I ...