Jonah Hull is a roving correspondent based out of Al Jazeera's London broadcast centre. He has extensive experience covering breaking news, conflict and natural disasters around the world. In his previous role as Al Jazeera English's Moscow correspondent, Jonah covered the final years of Vladimir Putin's presidency, the election that installed his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, and the five-day war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008.
Europe's leaders could soon be facing a moment of truth on whether to bail out the economy of a country much larger than Ireland, Portugal and Greece put together.
Jonah Hull steals a glance of Norway's mass killer Anders Behring Breivik and wonders how he could have done what he did.
Western powers, demanding Assad step down, lambasted Russia for this. It cost them a show of diplomatic unity against Assad, in the absence of will to take concrete steps on the ground.
The protests that have swept Moscow following alleged vote rigging in December's parliamentary election have made their mark on many people.
While Vladimir Putin has succeeded in alienating the middle class in Russia, in a Soviet-era factory in Siberia, Jonah Hull finds workers still loyal to the man poised to return to the Kremlin.
