Russia is seeing an extraordinary surge of political arrests that has shaken the country’s ruling class. From senior judges ...
Wartime Russia has seen an unprecedented wave of political arrests. It has included the routing of the political clan of the ...
"Nobody could expect that [Ukrainian forces] would advance so rapidly," Abbas Gallyamov, a former speechwriter to Vladimir Putin, told CNN.
A containment strategy for Russia may be morally satisfying, but it fails to acknowledge the end of US supremacy.
Her outburst drew applause from the crowd. Within sight of the Kremlin walls, ordinary Russians were accusing Putin’s men of ...
JOSHUA YAFFA is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the inaugural Writer in Residence at Bard College Berlin. He is the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s ...
Repression is tightening its grip across Russia: neither loyalty to the regime nor the protection of powerful patrons offers ...
Xi meeting and a string of international summits this fall will show that Putin did not just gamble the Russian economy with ...
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Vladimir Putin Is Weaker Than You Think. That’s a Bad Thing.

Many in the West have made no secret that they hope for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be overthrown. In such a scenario, whoever succeeds him is likely to be far worse.
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has become a central pillar of the Kremlin’s political and informational warfare strategy, which shapes narratives by fusing ...
The Russian leader emphasized all parliamentary parties have confirmed their high status and demonstrated that they enjoy the trust of their voters NOVO-OGARYOVO, September 18. /TASS/. Russia owes its ...