At the outset of Russia’s invasion, almost no one in the West expected that Ukraine would be able to offer Russia any kind of serious opposition to its unprovoked aggression. A year into the war, it’s ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the ethnographer Afanasyev published around 600 Russian folktales—the world’s largest academic collection of such texts. In Russia, these tales have long been considered ...

“Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” – Winston Churchill, 1939. “Russia is the only country with an unpredictable past.” – Winston Churchill, 1939. Winston Churchill ...