The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind closed doors. A look back at the Politburo – an opaque, feared body that ran an ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of ...

Russian strategic cooperation, particularly within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), plays a crucial role in regional stability and development. Both nations view the SCO as a platform for ...

After taking power in 2012, Xi commissioned a documentary about the end of the Soviet Union that portrayed Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, as a villain who abandoned the party.

Moreover, when the archives were opened up in the late 1980s, during Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost, it was reliably confirmed that they included original records of even more terrible crimes ...

That’s the case when gauging China’s evolving view of President Donald Trump’s second term. Beijing sees Trump’s disruptive ...

Explore the historical and ideological currents that shape the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict… is this merely a crisis, or ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union at the time, introduced the policy of "Glasnost" which eased restrictions on freedom of speech. As a result, songs emphasizing Estonian identity ...

Trump is having a hard time quitting Putin despite his uncharacteristically candid assessment of him during a July 8 Cabinet session, in which he admitted, “We get a lot of bulls*** thrown at us by ...

The conventional wisdom is that President Vladimir Putin’s war has showered Russians with newfound wealth. Workers, we are ...