Articles by Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti: Russia is massing thousands of troops on Ukraine’s border. Here’s why we …

Mark Galeotti: Putin’s incredible shrinking circle

Mark Galeotti: European security concerns bring Russian mafia back onto agenda

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Mark Galeotti: Russia is only a threat if we let it be one

Mark Galeotti, Anna Arutunyan: Hybrid business – the risks in the Kremlin’s weaponization …

Mark Galeotti: How Vladimir Putin is being outfoxed by a Chechen warlord

Mark Galeotti: No, Russia is not preparing for all-out war

Mark Galeotti: Putinism won’t end with a bang, but a warrant

Mark Galeotti: The West needs to stop panicking about Russia’s ‘hybrid’ warfare

Mark Galeotti: The Putin myth

Mark Galeotti: Putin’s new National Guard

Mark Galeotti: Moscow’s mercenaries in Syria

Mark Galeotti: The Panama Papers show how corruption really works in Russia

Mark Galeotti: What Russia’s military proved in Syria

Mark Galeotti: By matching Moscow’s paranoia, the West plays into Putin’s hands

Mark Galeotti: Russia’s Communist Party making comeback — it’s bad news for Putin

Mark Galeotti: Free Lavrov!

Mark Galeotti: The Litvinenko affair: An Anglo-Russian exercise in futility

Mark Galeotti: We don’t know what to call Russian military intelligence and that may be a …

Mark Galeotti: Russia needs its brains

Mark Galeotti: Yuri Andropov would drop Assad like a hot kartoshka

Russia Direct: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s foreign policy in 2015

Mark Galeotti: Three Putins leave us all guessing

Mark Galeotti: Moscow faces terror threat it can handle

Mark Galeotti: Will 2016 see the three Russias diverging?

Mark Galeotti: A tale of two cities and their security conferences

Mark Galeotti: What could possibly go wrong in Russia’s Syrian gambit?

Mark Galeotti: If US intelligence on Russia is broken (a bit), what can be done to help …

Mark Galeotti: West has lost the right to lecture Putin

Mark Galeotti: Hybrid war as a war on governance

Mark Galeotti: Leaks and sneaks in the Nemtsov enquiry

Mark Galeotti: Moscow is playing second fiddle to Beijing

Mark Galeotti: Snubbing Russia’s Victory Day achieves nothing

Mark Galeotti: Russia is flexible when it comes to justice

Mark Galeotti: Could Kadyrov replace Putin?

Mark Galeotti: Was Nemtsov murder ‘a job for a Chechen’?

Mark Galeotti: Putin’s countermove

Mark Galeotti: A Ukraine-Russia peace deal – Crimea must have a cost

Mark Galeotti: Putin’s G20 snub

Mark Galeotti: How the invasion of Ukraine is shaking up the global crime scene

Mark Galeotti: Kremlin insecurity threatens to derail Russia’s police reform

Mark Galeotti: Russia’s secret weapon

Mark Galeotti: MH17 and the east Ukraine campaign’s long-term costs for Russia

Mark Galeotti: Spying on Russia is in everyone’s interests

Mark Galeotti: Reasons why Malaysian Airlines was probably shot down by a rebel missile

Mark Galeotti: Putin’s secret weapon

Mark Galeotti: Russia is punching above its weight

Mark Galeotti: This is not Stalingrad’s generation

Mark Galeotti: Moscow’s war in Ukraine relies on local assets

Mark Galeotti: Moscow’s role in Ukraine’s unrest is clear and increasing

Mark Galeotti: What would a Russian invasion of Ukraine look like?