A weakened international order under President Donald Trump, combined with rising oil prices following the American war against Iran, has emboldened President Vladimir Putin of Russia to keep pressing ...
MOSCOW – For a long time, it was believed that Vladimir Putin had no ideology. A classic kleptocrat, the Russian President simply strived to maintain his power at all costs. But a surrogate ideology, ...
While Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition politician, was in prison, a fellow inmate told him that Ukraine was “full of Nazis”. Where did he hear that? “From the telly.” Asked whether he believed state ...