Reportage

Letters exclusively obtained by Byline Times, between Boris Johnson and Evgeny Lebedev, shed new light on how the son of a Russian oligarch and former KGB officer built such a close relationship with Britain's Prime Minister

Jemimah Steinfeld, editor of the Index on Censorship’s 50th anniversary edition, explains how journalism can be an antidote to autocracy

Byline Times talks to Susie Symes, Chair of the Museum of Immigration, about the arrest of Leyla Ibragimova and what it tells us about how authoritarian and repressive regimes attack culture and freedoms

TJ Coles explores the tangled web that exists between British and Russian money

Michael MacKay explains why Putin’s Ukraine offensive has stalled

Sam Bright explores how Brexit has exposed Britain to the reverberations of the war in Ukraine

Labour is critical of the Government's treatment of Ukrainian refugees – but is reluctant to take a straightforwardly more liberal approach, reports Adam Bienkov

Mic Wright looks at the cute and often contradictory statements on the Russian President made by the proprietor of the Evening Standard and Independent newspapers. Photo: Matt Crossick /Alamy

Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain

Fossil fuel firms have found Russia's invasion a convenient opportunity to undermine efforts to decarbonise the economy, reports Thomas Perrett

Jack Hanick, who created a Pro-Putin propaganda network for Putin’s favourite sanctioned oligarch, has been arrested in London – but the connections between his employer and the global far-right run deep

Migration statistics show that 347 Russian citizens have been granted asylum since 2008 – compared to nearly 2,600 'golden visas' for Russian millionaires in same period