But the enormous scope of the operation will almost certainly include other victims of Soviet “justice” during the reign of the dictator Joseph Stalin. Putin’s prosecutor general is moving ...

On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.

Critics of Putin decried the statement as antisemitic, noting parallels to Soviet state antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being “rootless ...

Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the ...

Ukraine should not hold elections during the war, as they could weaken it, but democratic and competitive elections are ...

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg’s plan to end the war in Ukraine is facing challenges as he is tasked with finding a ...

The expansionism of the presidents of Russia and the United States set a dangerous example for less powerful countries that have open territorial disputes with Ukraine ...

Putin has now ruled, in one guise or another, longer than any modern leader other than Joseph Stalin. On that New Year’s Eve 1999, few in the West imagined that he would still be at the helm a quarter ...

The post-Shoigu defense ministry has also been reorganized, the report added. The report suggested Putin's remaining allies, each with their own spheres of influence, could find themselves next in ...

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 ...