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News and analysis about all things Russia, including special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, the war in Ukraine, and more.
Yulia Navalnaya picks up her husband’s battle against Putin.
Navalny’s death is the end of an era for Russia — and cements Putin’s grip on power.
Adversaries keep chipping away at America’s military credibility. Trump isn’t helping.
How the US is preparing to fight — and win — a war in space
Nations like the US have more firepower than ever before — but they also appear weaker than ever. The upshot is a world that feels out of control.
Should Congress fail to extend aid to Ukraine, it would “change the character of the war.”
It’s part of Putin’s strategy to paint himself as Russia’s protector against Western immorality.
A conversation with a Ukrainian journalist who documented the siege of Mariupol.
The latest struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, will ripple throughout the region.
The paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin may have been killed in a fatal plane crash.
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa: Could they change the way the global economy works?
Philanthropies are pulling back from programs meant to address the risk of nuclear war — at precisely the wrong moment.
Wagner’s businesses in Africa isolate and create dependent economies, not funding for private armies.
A Russian journalist on how the country sees the surprise mutiny.
Belarus’s first and only president has a complicated alliance with Putin.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is supposedly headed to Belarus, but Putin’s troubles aren’t over.
Attacks inside Russia could shift public opinion on Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Standing in front of dead bodies, a Russian paramilitary commander curses out the country’s military brass.
How geopolitics and technological advances are making this a riskier world for bioweapons.
Four big questions about the operation the world is waiting for.
Without treaties to rein in their use, a dangerous escalation between countries becomes much more likely.
The paramilitary group has come out of the shadows in the war in Ukraine. But what comes next?
China wants to use Russia to improve its image as a diplomatic leader.
Vladimir Putin is suspending New START amid Ukraine war tensions.
A year into the conflict, what’s next?
The US never had an exit strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan. Does it have one for Ukraine?
Biden in Warsaw, Putin in Moscow.
Putin’s new offensive is now underway. Can Ukraine withstand the Russian assault?
Rebel-held areas were already in a dire situation before the earthquake hit.
The unnerving similarities — and key differences — between our current moment and the Cold War, explained by an expert.
This 36-hour unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine is really a propaganda move — and there are few indications that Russia followed through.
The cap went into effect Monday, along with an EU ban on seaborne Russian oil.
The president’s statements on talks with Russia aren’t that different from his previous positions.
Nuclear diplomacy is urgently needed amid rising tensions but politically untenable.
Russian strikes have devastated Ukraine’s energy networks as winter approaches.
Russia’s announcement that it would retreat from Kherson is another setback for Putin and a political win for Ukraine.
It’s impossible to know what Putin is thinking, but there’s reason not to take it as an indication that Russia is presently planning a nuclear attack.
Moscow’s next target may be a massive dam in Kherson.
These three questions will determine the future of the war.
Russia’s brutal missile attacks on civilians are doomed to backfire. Here’s why Putin launched them anyway.