Brian McDonald
Irish. Long time Russia-based journalist. Writing about international politics and sport.
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The further from Moscow, the closer to Putin
On Thursday, Russia analyst Anton Barbashin asked on X: “Do some journalists really have access to people from the Russian president’s inner circle? Why would such sources share sensitive information with the foreign press? Is this always m...
Why is Ireland neutral?
A post from a British writer of Polish background on X got me thinking.
Waldemar Januszczak wrote: “Calm reminder that my mum never threatened Russia in any meaningful way. How could she have done? She was 14 when they put her on a cattle...
Sergei Ivanov, the president Russia almost had
Sergei Ivanov’s death last week closes one of the more fascinating unfinished chapters in the story of Putin’s Russia. Just as his formal retirement earlier this year marked the start of what will be the gradual exit of the political leader...
Yeltsin’s 1996 triumph: The rigged election Washington blessed and Russia never forgot.
I went back to former US Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul’s 2018 book From Cold War to Hot Peace after an exchange on X, last week, with the French philosopher Philippe Lemoine about Russia’s 1996 presidential election, which hits the bi...
How Western Europe’s elites lost the plot over Russia
Last week, the Guardian gave us a curious little snapshot of the accelerating decline of political thinking in Western Europe. Timothy Garton Ash’s “How to Defeat Putin” essay, three days later presented as a ‘View from the Council’ by the...
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