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Kate Jones is a researcher and consultant on human rights and emerging technology. She has written extensively on disinformation and human rights, technology governance and artificial intelligence, and is an Associate Fellow with Chatham House.

New polling data from Moscow indicates that Russian public support for the country’s invasion of Ukraine is growing.

Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to pose as an unrivaled expert on Ukrainian history and identity politics.

Gangster dramas are the best guide to the Kremlin’s mindset. Applebaum? Snyder? Belton? Or maybe some Dostoyevsky or Solzhenitsyn?

The Kremlin is using a variety of tactics to intimidate and exploit the people of the occupied zones. Vladimir Putin told Duma deputies in July that Russia “hasn’t even started yet” in Ukraine.

Pro-Kremlin sociologists record an extremely low level of protest activity in Russia against the background of the Ukrainian war.

International law needs to keep pace with the changing nature of warfare. The ICC is best placed to take action.

Today, many people are trying to compare Putin’s Russia regime with Hitler’s Germany. Indeed, the two states have much in common, particularly the human-hating nature of both regimes, extremely effective…

There are moves to have Putinism installed as a state ideology to last beyond the president’s time in office. Alexander Dugin, the Kremlin’s court philosopher, one of the main ideologists of modern Russia and…

The war in Ukraine is as much a bloody conflict as it is a propaganda war. The doublespeak in Russian media is that there is no war, that the Bucha massacre was staged by Ukrainians and that Russians and Ukrainians are united in liberating Ukraine from NATO and nationalists.