With the so-called Putin majority ascendant, the government could hasten its shift toward such a regime with broad popular approval.
Andrei Kolesnikov was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. His research focuses on the major trends shaping Russian domestic politics, with...
The first occasion was the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, which went largely unnoticed by many Russians because few knew what was going on.
Many Russians seem sanguine about their future despite Vladimir Putin's vast imperial project in eastern Ukraine, writes Andrei Kolesnikov...
In the 1920s, the Bolshevik economic theorist and Communist Party darling Nikolai Bukharin was one of Stalin's closest allies.
In early April, the coffin containing the body of 75-year-old Vladimir Zhirinovsky—the ultranationalist and populist who was a crucial...
The end of hostilities will have to wait a long time — the current conflict is unfolding in the mode of medieval wars.
OP-ED. The Anchorage meeting was never meant to produce real negotiations on Ukraine, but rather to send a tacit message: Russia is waging...
Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice.
During the Cold War, few senior Soviet officials understood the dynamics of Soviet relations with the West as well as Valentin Falin.
A political analyst who has criticized Latvia's policies towards ethnic Russians, often highlighting perceived injustices and tensions.
