Mary Dejevsky

If the proposed bilateral talks between the US and Russia go beyond a ceasefire in Ukraine and encompass wider issues of security, that might be sufficient to convince Putin to show up – and even invite Zelensky along, too, says Mary Dejevsky

By agreeing to meet the US president during his trip to his two Scottish resorts, the prime minister risks not only becoming the focus of the inevitable protests – but also the negative blowback from British public opinion, says Mary Dejevsky

The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passing into law is the crowning achievement of the president’s first six months in the White House, a time marked by more wins than losses. But, says Mary Dejevsky, the US capital remains baffled by the president’s ability to get what he wants – and his enduring popularity in the country at large 

Have Democrats at last found a credible champion in the California governor – and can he exploit his LA stand-off with the president to become a 2028 White House contender, asks Mary Dejevsky

The one-term president’s humiliation by Iranian revolutionaries kicked off a decades-long American grudge, Mary Dejevsky writes

The ‘President Putin’ gaffe at the Nato summit was the moment Biden’s re-election bid died, says Mary Dejevsky. Now, the Democrats’ political crisis will have diplomatic implications far beyond the corridors of Capitol Hill

The US president has faced a storm of criticism for appearing lost and looking vacant at global events – but, says Mary Dejevsky, it is still not too late to anoint a replacement who can take on Donald Trump

By his very mention of sending Western troops to Ukraine, Macron broke a taboo which had thus far held for a reason, writes Mary Dejevsky. There was strength in a unified public message to Putin – but the French president has changed all that

From the outset, Britain was out of step with the ‘European project’, and the Iron Lady’s clashes with the Commission president may well have sown the seeds for Brexit. But, says Mary Dejevsky, her objections to the bloc becoming far more than a free-trade grouping could yet prove prescient

With the conflict approaching stalemate and Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval ratings at a low, a dangerous sense of war-weariness has set in. Kyiv faces a real prospect of not getting the help it wants or needs, writes Mary Dejevsky

A single day of remembrance would help to tie together the competing strands of memoralisation around this time of year, writes Mary Dejevsky – and help avoid awkward conflicts

The electability of Johnson and Trump resided in their effectiveness as communicators and ability to channel vast populist appeal, writes Mary Dejevsky. Just because they’ve broken their parties and been discredited, doesn’t mean their success was a flash in the pan

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

Without this debate, there can be no understanding of what will be needed for a lasting peace, writes Mary Dejevsky

A group of House Democrats sang ‘God Bless America’ on the Capitol steps after Roe v Wade was overturned. The group were promptly slammed on social media. Chanting could be heard in the background as protests erupted outside the Supreme Court on Friday morning. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to…

Sowing confusion is often seen as a typically Russian technique to blindside and divert the enemy. But the Russians have hardly needed to sow any chaos here, because the British have helpfully done it for them

Connie Yates and Chris Gard wanted to take their child abroad for treatment they saw as a last resort – UK courts and European Court of Human Rights have judged it right to intervene and turn off his life support

The Gorbachev era is brought to life in rich detail yet some gaps remain

It’s absurd to suggest that we are fighting them ‘over there’ so that we won’t have to fight them ‘over here’

In one respect, these two volumes represent opposite poles of historiography. Martin Sixsmith romps through 1,000 years of Russian history in just short of 550 pages. Rodric Braithwaite devotes his 330 pages of text to a bare decade, focusing on one recent chapter of Russia’s foreign policy: its nine-year war in Afghanistan. Sixsmith’s is a view through the wide-angle lens; Braithwaite’s lens is a telephoto, through which he observes the minutiae of the decision-making, the experience, and the i…