Editorials

[This editorial is also available in Ukrainian.] Are Europeans really aware of what is at stake in Ukraine? Those who suffered under Soviet totalitarianism know this instinctively: Russia has always sought to expand its territory, even though it is the largest of all nations. It seeks in...

[This editorial is also available in Ukrainian.] Barely back from a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, where all his partners called for de-escalation, Putin decided to mobilise his population, to whom he had promised to do nothing. Extending the scope of the war to NATO countries,...

[This editorial is also available in Ukrainian.] Both the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the UN General Assembly meetings illustrated Putin's isolation. By choosing to escalate, he has forced those on whom he relies – China, India, Turkey – to remind him that "the...

[This editorial is also available in Ukrainian.] Europe is fragile. The sum of so many democracies cannot be a smooth river. They are all plagued by regressive, populist, extremist, nationalist and xenophobic currents. And so, it is easier to destabilise and attack them, which is what...