Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union's collapse and America's current decline have remarkable similarities. The Soviet Union failed because it marginalized the entrepren ...

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 ...

Donald Trump embarked on his second term as President of the United States. During his  election campaign, Trump claimed that he could end the Russia-Ukraine conflict within 24  hours of taking office ...

Once again, back on track, Russia continues to act as a loose cannon, crossing the red lines of its neighbours and allies.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert Einstein and other scientists from the Manhattan Project who developed the atomic bomb, ...

He invokes Boris Yeltsin’s “strange” final meeting with Clinton ... Haslam makes much ado about the “assurance” supplied by James Baker to Mikhail Gorbachev on this score, but this was no more than a ...

THE WORD “HUBRIS” HAS COME UP frequently since Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine. The most straightforward and obvious application is to the architects of the unprovoked, unjust, and ...

CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs ...

CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights ...

Russia's top diplomat targets domestic, international skeptics as Kremlin seeks to create false equivalencies, portray Ukraine as extremist ...