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Misha Glenny

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    EU foreign policy
    Serbia’s strongman ruler leans west with a lithium deal

    Russia is displeased with the latest sign that President Aleksandar Vučić is integrating his economy with Europe and the US

    A man stands inside a huge battery cell and reaches out to shake the hand of another man
  • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
    The Weekend Essay
    The untold history of today’s Russian-speaking hackers

    They hold global businesses to ransom and seem to act with impunity — but behind them lies a tangled geopolitical web

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
    Rare earths
    The scramble for rare earths carries big geopolitical risks

    But without these metals there are limited solutions to our planetary problems

    A man in a hard hat holds a large power washer that blasts sand from the ground at a rare earth metals mine
  • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
    Kosovo
    Serbia and Kosovo must dial down Balkan tensions

    EU and Nato have crucial roles to play in stopping Russia from exploiting regional rivalries

    A man walks past a mural depicting a map of Kosovo reading ‘Serbian’ in Belgrade, Serbia
  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable by Mikko Hypponen — cyber space and how to defend it

    The master coder and superb communicator provides a refreshingly jargon-free introduction to the history of hacking

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    Walking Plutocratic London — the rise of the super-rich

    Part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap, Caroline Knowles’s eye-opening book reveals how the capital has changed over the decades

    An unused car covered up in front of a mansion on Kensington Palace Gardens, the most expensive street in London
  • Friday, 14 May, 2021
    Cyber Security
    The Colonial Pipeline cyber attack is a warning of worse to come

    A plague of ransomware will continue in every sector until the superpowers step in

    Emanuel Santos illustration of Misha Glenny column ‘The Colonial Pipeline cyber attack is a warning of worse to come’
  • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
    Special ReportIllicit Goods and Services
    Pandemic accelerates growth in cybercrime

    Gangs benefit from digitisation and are happy to carry out state-backed hacks on the side

    Hidden cargo: an X-ray scan reveals a stash of cocaine secreted in a truck passing through the Port of Antwerp
  • Friday, 25 October, 2019
    Life & Arts
    How the east was lost: the triumph and tragedy of 1989

    Misha Glenny smuggled out messages from eastern European dissidents. Was it all worth it?

    Budapest (Ungarn), Straßenszenen. Straßenszene. Foto (koloriert), 1986.
  • Friday, 22 March, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Could Brexit break the Union?

    As England leads its neighbours out of the EU, old battles over a shared British history are being fought all over again

  • Friday, 3 August, 2018
    Audio articles
    The war on drugs has been lost

    As production moves to the developed world, policymakers are struggling to keep up

    A man smokes a joint during a demonstration for the decriminalization of cannabis in France, in Paris on May 12, 2018. - Some 1,300 people, according to the police, marched today in Paris for the decriminalization of cannabis in France, which "remains blocked" while, for the organizers, "the other countries have never advanced so far" on this issue. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2017
    Cyber Security
    Organised crime finally embraces cyber theft

    European police struggle to keep up as the Godfathers go digital, writes Misha Glenny

    A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken on March 1,  2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration
  • Friday, 12 August, 2016
    The Diary
    Amazon Diary: Misha Glenny

    The UK journalist on Brazil’s evangelisation, cyber technology, university of crime, and the Amazon’s wanton destruction

    Illustration for 'Amazon Diary: Misha Glenny'
  • Friday, 18 March, 2016
    Olympic Games
    After Lula-era excess, the Car Wash generation upends Brazilian politics

    It will be a tumultuous few months before the Olympics, writes Misha Glenny

    Ingram Pinn illustration
  • Sunday, 3 January, 2016
    US politics & policy
    To win the war on terror, forget the war on drugs

    If marijuana were legal in UK, the extra tax take could amount to £1bn a year, says Misha Glenny

    A young man smokes a joint during a rally in front of Supreme Court of Justice in Mexico City on October 28, 2015. Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday began discussing the possibility of depenalizing marijuana for recreative use. A group of citizens who created the Sociedad Mexicana de Autoconsumo Responsable y Tolerante (Smart) organization lodged an appeal before the Supreme Court for the depenalization of marijuana for no profit uses. AFP PHOTO/ Yuri CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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