Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] ...

The Decembrists were Russia’s first revolutionaries, challenging autocracy in the early 19th century. This series explores ...

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A victory for Putin means, in due time, a re-charting of the entire map of Europe, to suit his vision of a Russian empire ...

Donald Trump wants the United States to buy Greenland for its strategically vital resources, to bolster US security and give China a bloody nose. But he also wants to strike his largest ever real ...

Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler) of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s ...

Russia’s human rights chief Tatyana Moskalkova said Ukrainian soldiers should not be dehumanized and that Ukraine itself ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

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Vladimir Putin 's lover Alina Kabaeva was secretly paid by a military unit linked to the dictator when she was only 17 years ...