vladimir putin

Life may be getting harder in Russia, but Putin doesn’t care.

The Russian president was a man of the common people—until the common people started making demands.

The U.S. president might be too hemmed in by the Russia probe to attempt a successor to the INF or START treaties.

Russia never sought to be a small-time fixer in the Middle East. Its goal was to reclaim its status as a global power broker.

It has already empowered Russia and Iran while undermining the Kurds.

The Russian president’s visit to Serbia was a lovefest—but beyond the odes to Orthodox brotherhood, the two authoritarian leaders are using one another to advance a geopolitical agenda.

Even if Trump is impeached, U.S. investigators are unlikely to find the Russian president’s fingerprints.

With larger powers in retreat, small countries and civil society groups have stepped up—and they have won some significant victories.

Tensions between Moscow and Minsk have sparked worries over another Russian annexation.

The Kremlin is going after Russian rappers, but the government can't control a culture it doesn't understand.

From the Kremlin’s pro-Trump meddling in 2016 to its threats to Ukraine, Georgia and other border states, nearly everything has gone its way.

Whatever the Russian president is doing in Ukraine, it isn’t because of his falling poll numbers.

The Caucasus is a complex ethnic and religious patchwork, and only a shared identity can help Georgians push back against Putin.

Washington thinks punitive measures will change Moscow’s calculus, but the Russian economy is doing just fine.

In one gubernatorial race, a scandal might be a sign of Putin’s decline.

What attending a tank biathlon outside of Moscow taught me about contemporary Russia.

The young woman belonged to a political group whose members may have been entrapped by a police informant.

Russian meddling is a rising concern in Helsinki.

Trump doesn’t think the country is worth defending. Putin has already tried to destabilize it once—the West can’t let it happen again.

Politicians are exploiting a period of relative calm to gamble with the country’s future.