In Moscow's Shadows 213: Foreign Agents in Russia, Foreigners in Ukraine...

After a brief comment on the frozen peace process, I look at the case of Sergei Markov, voluble Kremlin loyalist, who has just been declared a Foreign Agents. What's going on - he seems to have been caught by Russia's escalating feud with Azerbaijan - and what does this say about the decay of late Putinism? In the second half, I consider three recent books and what they say about how we discuss and think about the war in Ukraine. They are: Colin Freeman, The Mad and the Brave. The Untold Stor...