Russia

05/11/2017 - 17:40

These observations were made not long after the turbulent presidency of Boris Yeltsin had come to an end. Nearly 18 years now into the less... →

28/10/2017 - 13:06

Mr Putin has earned that title by lifting his country out of what many Russians see as the chaos in the 1990s and by making it count again... →

17/10/2017 - 16:22

Terry Gross: Let's talk briefly about the ways Russia has been interfering in Ukraine for the past couple of years. Maybe you can... →

30/08/2017 - 10:27

“If I had to do it over again, I would not even be a Communist,” Bulgaria’s deposed Communist leader, Todor Zhivkov, had said the... →

10/07/2017 - 16:43

Whether Trump will rebuke Putin for any of these actions is unclear. One could, however, easily imagine them bonding over their shared... →

18/06/2017 - 12:02

Ukrainian nationals like to say that Russia’s annexation of Crimea and stoking of unrest in eastern Ukraine in 2014 contributed more toward... →

02/06/2017 - 13:51

Many contemporary writings see the 1917 revolution as little more than a German plot. This view is particularly popular now in Russia... →

15/05/2017 - 16:27

Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and its suspected hacking of French President Emmanuel Macron’s campaign... →

09/05/2017 - 15:12

The Soviet Union lost more than 20 million people in World War II and bore the brunt of the fighting in Europe between 1941 and 1944.... →

30/03/2017 - 15:26

President Vladimir Putin is the embodiment of nostalgia not so much for Soviet times as for that period’s sacralization of the state, which... →

20/03/2017 - 11:58

Reuters reported that Russia’s special forces had been deployed in western Egypt towards the border with Libya to support its surrogate,... →

27/02/2017 - 19:19

“Ura! Ura! Ura!” I vividly remember the wall of sound as stern, gray-uniformed soldiers met their commander’s greeting: “Congratulations on... →

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