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Mark Galeotti

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Principal Director at Freelance

Contributing Editor at bne IntelliNews

Mayak Intelligence, @UCLSSEES, @RUSI_org, @ConGeostrategy, @IIR_Prague. Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to global crime. Views my own

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  • 2 weeks ago | penguin.co.uk | Anna Arutunyan |Mark Galeotti

    Skip to ContentDiscover the Penguin books that shaped usIn the early years of Vladmir Putin’s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President’s most trusted assets. By 2023, he had become a dangerous warlord – and also one of Putin’s chief rivals in Russia’s tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading an attempted coup, and shortly after killed in a mysterious plane crash.

  • 4 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Mark Galeotti

    Is it getting harder for Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić to maintain his balancing act between Moscow and the West? Why else, after all, would Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) suddenly revive a year-old story about covert arms supplies to Ukraine? Back in June of last year, the Financial Times splashed the story that Serbia had exported around €800 million ($900 million) worth of ammunition to third parties that then ended up being transferred to Ukraine.

  • 4 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Mark Galeotti

    Is it getting harder for Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić to maintain his balancing act between Moscow and the West? Why else, after all, would Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) suddenly revive a year-old story about covert arms supplies to Ukraine? Back in June of last year, the Financial Times splashed the story that Serbia had exported around €800 million (£673 million) worth of ammunition to third parties that then ended up being transferred to Ukraine.

  • 4 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Mark Galeotti

    Is it getting harder for Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić to maintain his balancing act between Moscow and the West? Why else, after all, would Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) suddenly revive a year-old story about covert arms supplies to Ukraine? Back in June of last year, the Financial Times splashed the story that Serbia had exported around €800 million (£673 million) worth of ammunition to third parties that then ended up being transferred to Ukraine.

  • 1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Mark Galeotti

    Ceasefire then talks, or talks then ceasefire? This has emerged as one of the pivotal issues in the diplomacy around the war in Ukraine, even if one could question just how genuine both sides are in their respective positions. The proposed talks in Istanbul on Thursday may help clarify matters, but both sides seem more committed to appeasing the White House than talking peace.

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