There has been speculation that the Russian Navy’s "Admiral Nakhimov" could return to service later this year after a decades ...

Vladimir Putin is no genius, but occasionally he is right. After the U.S. and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, Russia’s ...

On 2021, acclaimed Filipino journalist Maria Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize (alongside Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) in ...

Hecker’s story is a grizzly odyssey. The book is full of crisp soundbites. One I liked best, towards the end of the book, quotes someone saying that Russia has become, not an emerging economy, but a ...

Vladimir Putin is no genius, but occasionally he is right. After the U.S. and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, Russia’s ...

No, I do not regard Putin as a great leader. He is a disaster for millions, like the predecessors he admires, including Stalin and Andropov. Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Russian democracy leader and ...

What is it about Washington liberals and Democratic leaders that made them so anxious for a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1970s and ...

By Dele Sobowale He who sets out on revenge must first dig two graves.” Chinese Proverb. The Americans struck the first blow.

You think Gorbachev got to power himself? He was an apparatchik in Stavropol province, and [Yuri] Andropov contrived his promotion to Moscow, even though agriculture in Stavropol province had not ...

They had taught us their languages; dominated our economies and imposed the leaders they thought they could trust when independence was granted to most for­mer colonies in the 1960s. The USSR had ...