Three years on from the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian leader Vladimir Putin hasn't shelved his ambitions of tilting ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Mr Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who first rose to power in 1999, will soon at 71-years-old overtake Josef Stalin in becoming Russia's longest-serving leader for more than 200 years.

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

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 ...

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

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

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 ...