Putin’s Victory Day speech on Red Square was one of the shortest in years, maybe ever. It was heavy on the usual tropes: the ...

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey citing mistakes he allegedly made in the investigation into Hillary ...

Words of War” — 3 stars The fact that an infinitesimal fraction of people who line up for the latest Marvel superhero movie ...

The Chechen leader has made similar public statements in the past about stepping down, but has always remained in power.

The Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is the subject of a film that honors her bravery.

Israeli national carrier El Al will restart flights to Moscow on May 1 after a four-month pause, according to the company's ...

The early 20th century was marked by increasing unrest due to political repression, economic inequality, and military defeats in the Russo-Japanese War (1905 ... and the rise of powerful oligarchs.

On the morning of April 25, a hit was recorded in the house of the deputy head of the Chechen Republic, Murad Saidov, in Saky, temporarily occupied Crimea. This was reported by the partisan movement ...

In the middle of the withdrawal in July 2021, Mr. Biden dismissed questions about whether the Afghan government would fall: “Look, we were in that war for 20 years. Twenty years.

It is 18 months since Israel declared war on Gaza, following the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel in October 2023, which killed more than 1,100 people. At the time of writing, more than 51,000 ...