Who will succeed Russia’s longest-serving ruler since Stalin? Not even the handpicked elite can say.
Something I’ve seen in Putin’s most effective opponents: Even if it costs them their life, they defy him with humor.
The most violent criminals get a Kremlin pardon if they agree to fight in Ukraine.
I sometimes felt that we told the truth only at the funerals of our assassinated friends. Was this what Russia had been all along?
Reaching flood victims in Russian-occupied Ukraine is so dangerous that only Ukrainians will do it. Where are the international organizations that were made for this?
Drone attacks in Moscow, incursions over the border—Russians are starting to wonder whether Putin really does have, as he promised, “everything under control.”
The arrest on spying charges of the American journalist Evan Gershkovich is a grave—and cynical—new stage in Vladimir Putin’s repressions.
Kherson’s museums became a microcosm of the grim drama of collaboration and resistance that takes place under occupation.
Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya discusses how the war in neighboring Ukraine is affecting her own people’s bid for freedom.
Victoria Obidina’s account of her mistreatment in the Russian prison system is just one of thousands of reports of war crimes in Ukraine.
For the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the Kremlin today is taking the country back to the authoritarian nightmare of the past.
As they rush to evacuate children, the civilians of Zaporizhzhya face a double threat of nuclear devastation.
An interview with a Moscow professional who just quit Russia to escape Vladimir Putin’s military draft
The experience of Ukrainian medics in the notorious Olenivka POW camp suggests that Russia’s treatment of captives is certainly inhumane and probably illegal.
The country’s young people have been forced to make decisions much tougher than most adults are capable of. I feel some small sense of common cause.
A recent art exhibition in Russia made no mention of the current state of the country—saying more about Putin’s rule than any one exhibit could.
Vladimir Putin has nothing to offer Joe Biden because his balancing act between Westernizers and more conservative forces is over.
Vladimir Putin has a fondness for the Soviet era. So do many Russians—but often not for the same reasons.
Abroad, Putin is perceived as the master orchestrator of all of Russia’s actions. But his hold on the state’s security services is more limited.
Why does the White House cede control of the narrative to the Russians?