Robert Service

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Here is Sunday Telegraph comment piece I wrote a few hours after the Trump-Putin summit at Anchorage:
https://t.co/1xxd22Ig24

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Here's a review I did for the New Statesman this week on the Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions.
https://t.co/0IDiXDZAyj

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Here's a piece on Donald Trump's Greenland ambitions. There's an interesting pre-history:
https://t.co/Io4ZGDPG9r

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Putin's themes at his annual Q&A from Putin were the growing strength of Russia since 2022 and its economic independence especially in military technology. He brags of the Russian mission accomplished in Syria (!), and he reserves the option of returning to the Middle East.

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Whatever happens when Donald Trump returns to power and whatever deal Vladimir Putin hopes to inflict on Zelensky, Ukrainian resistance is unlikely to subside. Putin's own actions have aggravated his problem with Ukraine. See my piece in the Spectator:
https://t.co/Mr5ORn0F31

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

@AndreiSoldatov This is terrible news that deserves full international attention.

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If they can put up monuments to Dzerzhinski, yes, they can do the same for Stalin. Here's my piece on the latest manifestation of degraded Russian rulership:
https://t.co/hkm769kbOE

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Should be a good day tomorrow at the Gloucester History Festival - World War One and the Russian Revolution at 10.30 a.m. Talk and Q&A.
https://t.co/RUuKsPSsZz

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

There's some chatter on the Internet alleging that I think Trotsky was an unimportant historical figure. Untrue. Trotsky was very important indeed but was widely misunderstood and, unfortunately, remains so. He even misunderstood himself. Hence why I wrote his biography.

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

I've done an interview with Andrew Roberts for his Secrets of Statecraft series - it's an overview of Soviet history as well as a link with the Putin years.
Here it is: https://t.co/0VZXeHyhZ2

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What’s happening at Thames Water. Been waiting a day and a half from its eager ‘virtual assistant’ for an explanation of its water problem in London N8. Does the new AI system mean that they don’t feel the need to communicate? A full day and a half…

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Here's an interview I gave just before the Russian presidential 'election' for Radio Free Europe. An attempt to put things in an historical perspective and to show that Putin is taking a risk by 'personalising' his political order.
https://t.co/gfIKRXWFWb

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So Putin arrived on stage to celebrate his 'election' as president. But he didn't. He asked for applause for the 'reunification' of Crimea back in 2014. Perhaps he realised that a Putinfest for the yet-again presidency would be a selfie too far.

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Oxford Literary Festival, 24 March:
discussion of Russia past and present
between Geoffrey Robertson and me,
with Stephen Law in the chair.
By then we'll know the result of the
Russian presidential election, I think.

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Alexei Navalny found dead in prison. Shame on the Putin regime: to let die - or cause to die - the leading spokesman for the political opposition...For years he was banned from standing in elections. He was savagely poisoned. Yet still he still he fought on. Until now.

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

Tucker Carlson sits in a long line of Western journalists who were fools for the Kremlin. H.G.Wells interviewed Stalin in 1934 but after drooling about happy Soviet faces - in a time of famine - had the gumption to criticise the lawlessness in the USSR. Carlson, fool or knave?

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@Iain_MacGregor1 Good to hear! Cheers, Bob S.

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Here's a piece for The Spectator on the centenary of Lenin's death:
https://t.co/Fhs6Q4JPXq

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At his annual press conference today, not held for two years, Putin announced three war aims: demilitarisation, denazification and Ukraine as a neutral power. Good to have clarity or just another set of slogans clouded with some obscurity? Really a demand for total surrender.

[Robert Service @robertservice00]

It may never become law but it's a further sign of the times that the State Duma is currently discussing a bill to extract a 'loyalty' commitment from foreigners staying in Russia. Not even North Korea or Saudi Arabia does this. Sinisterly comical.
https://t.co/rqC1LTrGik