Briefing
Rebuilding back better
What will it cost to rebuild Ukraine?
And all sorts of infrastructure will need rebuilding
It’s a Cossack thing
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine is defined by self-organisation
Coming together is what Ukrainians do
Beating the hard right
France looks likely to re-elect Emmanuel Macron
But his race against Marine Le Pen is a lot closer than it was last time
The war in Ukraine
Ukraine’s president tells The Economist why Vladimir Putin must be defeated
Surrounded by sandbags and tank traps, Volodymyr Zelensky holds forth
Reactionary, obscurantist and having a day in the sun
The new Russian cult of war
It has been growing unnoticed for some time
The war in Ukraine
An uncertain outlook across Ukraine
Russia’s atrocities in Mariupol have not brought it closer to victory. But they have not yet spread farther afield, either
What’s the worst that can happen
The risk that the war in Ukraine escalates past the nuclear threshold
Disaster does not seem imminent but it does seem disturbingly possible
Occupation? No thanks!
Russian soldiers expecting to be welcomed to Ukraine were soon disabused
Now things are turning nastier
The great leap backward
Vladimir Putin is pushing Russia into the past
Maybe by a generation, maybe by a century
The economic weapon
Western sanctions on Russia are like none the world has seen
But they may weaken the system they are meant to defend