Tag: putin
Putin under more pressure than he ever imagined
By Russell Bruce
Russia's credit rating has been reduced to 'junk' status. Fitch on Tuesday down graded Russian sovereign...
In Trump’s new world, Scotland must speak for the stateless
Commentary by Christopher Silver
Nigel Farage has already branded 2016 as a year of political revolution.
Last week, the UKIP leader beamed, like a small boy...
Fear Itself: Geopolitics and the rise of the SNP
Christopher Silver reflects on fear as a powerful political weapon in the 21st century
Our world is fragile and precarious. Markets tremble, alliances strain, leaders...
Anger at severity of sentences handed out to protest band ‘Pussy...
By Bob Duncan Three members of “Pussy Riot”, a Russian female punk rock band, have been sentenced to two years in a prison colony...