Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s latest threats that Moscow is preparing to deploy its new “invincible” nuclear-powered cruise missile has drawn a rebuke from President Trump and a reminder of ...

Stefan Wolff is a past recipient of grant funding from the Natural Environment Research Council of the UK, the United States Institute of Peace, the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK, the ...

In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to live up to that promise. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and ...

As a second Ukraine summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is called off and the war drags on, Oct. 24 will mark United Nations Day, commemorating the entry into ...

Astana has quietly replaced a famine memorial plaque, dropping the word “Holodomor” for the neutral “famine.” The change has reignited debate over whether Kazakhstan’s 1930s famine should be called ...

The Army is overhauling how it fights in combat based on lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where drones have become the dominant weapon on the battlefield. The service is rethinking tank ...

A great reckoning began in 2022, after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It wasn’t just for the Ukrainians, but for the Russian people too. The invasion that was supposed to be a ...

The European Union will encourage its member states to jointly procure drone and air defense equipment as part of a five-year strategy to rearm and deter Russia. The European Commission, the EU’s ...

Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Zafar Khashimov headed to England from his native Tashkent to study at university. While there, he would visit a local Sainsbury’s supermarket. He left ...