Russian President Vladimir Putin aims to revive the USSR and regain imperial influence. This was stated in an interview with ...

Russian diplomacy has centuries-old long-standing traditions. Every year on the 10th of February Russian diplomats mark their ...

A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

Keller Professor of International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) to ...

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

The beginning of 2025 turned out to be very difficult for Russia's foreign policy in Transcaucasia. This was mainly due to ...

Ever since Russia’s reannexation of Crimea in 2014, the international conversation has centred on the rival claims of Russia ...

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

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...

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 ...

Much of modern Ukraine’s territory was part of the Russian empire under the tsars and then the Soviet Union following the Bolshevik revolution.