"Putin is unmoored from reality." The Russian President's isolation isn't helping his judgement, but it's unlikely his successor would be any different, says Robert Service, Emeritus Professor of Russian history at St. Anthony's College, Oxford and a bio...

"Putin will not be replaced by a nice man. Nobody who is around Putin is likely to be that different." Putin’s successor is ‘very likely’ to carry on the conflict, which is expected to continue for ’40, 50, 60 years’, Michael Clarke tells #TimesRadio.