May can berate Putin. But Brexit is his dream policy | Rafael Behr

As the Russian leader tries to diminish Europe, he finds ideologues such as Boris Johnson are doing the job for himWith lighter diplomatic baggage, Boris Johnson might have been a hit in Moscow. The foreign secretary’s artfully dishevelled, pseudo-Churchillian kitsch is not to everyone’s taste, but it could work in the bombastic idiom of Russian politics. Related: Facebook and Twitter to give details of Russian-backed Brexit postsContinue reading...