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The Economist
The Economist
12 Jan 2025


NextImg:Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks
Europe | Bingo bombers

Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks

The Kremlin blames a campaign of subversion and psychological warfare 

AN ELDERLY MAN places a newspaper on an ATM terminal, douses it in spirit, and sets it alight while filming it all on his smartphone. The pensioner then repeats the trick twice more on December 21st—once unsuccessfully—before police nab him in Kolpino, near St Petersburg. Within days, Alexander Nikiforov is in court and charged with terrorism. But his case, echoing dozens of similar events targeting banks, post offices and police cars the same week, has raised more questions than it has answered. Mr Nikiforov claims he was acting not from conviction, but under the instructions of unidentified telephone scammers.

Head of Freedom Party (FPOe) Herbert Kickl.

Herbert Kickl, Austria’s hard-right ideologue who played the long game

The Freedom Party leader is on the verge of becoming chancellor

Europe has lots of lithium, but struggles to get it out of the ground

Its targets for strategic autonomy look hard to meet

Spain’s government marks 50 years since Franco died

Opponents say it is the birth of democracy that should be commemorated