The Latest Breaking News from Chatham House

The Russian leader, having faltered, is likely to renew his assault on Ukraine and increase repression at home, says Samantha de Bendern, associate fellow at Chatham House

The insurrection wasn’t going stop the war: Prigozhin shared Putin’s aims in Ukraine. But a distracted Russia is good for the world

Key issues remain strongly contested despite draft laws agreed in Morocco by Libya’s rival legislative bodies.

The threat of Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine is “real” and “absolutely irresponsible”, according to the US president, Joe Biden. He was reacting to questioning from journalists as to whether he believed Belarus had been taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons.

The arrest of the former PM is yet another chapter in the conflict between the country’s all-powerful army and political class, writes Farzana Shaikh, associate fellow at Chatham House

With even nationalist pro-war bloggers criticising Putin’s actions in Ukraine, his desperation and paranoia are growing, says Samantha de Bendern, an associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House

Great Coco lies 55km from India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Beijing has denied it is involved in building a surveillance post there

Regional leaders and experts fear a civil war could lead to new crises in a region battered by conflict and drought.

Democracies should be maturely debating online safety and data, not making kneejerk responses, says Emily Taylor of the International Security Programme, Chatham House

The war is a test of China’s ability to manage its interests. Putin, Zelenskiy, the EU, the global south: it’s trying to keep them all on side, says Yu Jie, a senior research fellow at Chatham House

A recent paper, prepared jointly by Chatham House and the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, estimated that close to 50% of the populations living in fragile and conflict-affected states were in contexts "where relations between a significant number of international actors and national authorities are estranged". Rather…