What Will Happen to Russia After Putin?

Kotkin’s essay is about Russia after Putin -- what comes next when Putin leaves the scene. Kotkin believes that Putin fancies himself a new tsar, ... Read More

Think tank: Putin is not running out of money to fund war in Ukraine

Russia's economy will grow by 2.8% this year and expand at a slightly slower 2.5% next year, a Vienna-based think tank has forecast, defying predictions that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine would lead to ... Read More

My Father Was Assassinated in Russia. Putin Wants Rid of Everybody

I wasn't an expert in politics, although I followed it of course. But I met my father before ... Putin holds ultimate, first responsibility for all major political assassinations in Russia ... Read More

Cameron warns US politicians against ‘appeasement’ of Putin’s Russia

Lord Cameron has warned against the “appeasement” of Vladimir Putin and Russia ... ECHR “is a political construct that believes itself to be above the law”. He told GB News: “It ... Read More

How Putin’s Whirlwind Bromance Could End in a Kremlin Tragedy

Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via ReutersThe Kremlin is reportedly scrambling to find a successor to Ramzan Kadyrov following reports that the Chechen leader has been diagnosed with necrotizing ... Read More

A Terrorist Attack in Russia

Today, my colleague Anton Troianovski on the uncomfortable question it raises for Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin ... out show. Thousands of people were expected to be there. And before ... Read More

Russia News

By David Pierson and Ivan Nechepurenko The C.I.A. told Russia ... failure to prevent a terrorist attack include a distrust of foreign intelligence, a focus on Ukraine and a distracting political ... Read More

Putin the Pilate

Russia’s desire for empire has not diminished in the 21 st century, and Ukraine, once again, finds itself in a life struggle with the Kremlin piloted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Read More

Biden Tells Ukraine Not to Hit Russia

Images: AP/Bloomberg News Composite ... Ukraine has struck at least 15 of Russia’s 30 major refineries since January. The West has been reluctant to let Ukraine use donated weapons to strike ... Read More

Putin warns the West: Russia is ready for nuclear war

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on ... are now Russia. Putin, Russia's ultimate decision maker on nuclear weapons, reiterated that the use of nuclear weapons was spelled out in the ... Read More

Putin warns the West: Russia is ready for nuclear war

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin told the West on Wednesday that Russia was technically ... told Rossiya-1 television and news agency RIA when asked whether Russia was really ready for a ... Read More