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

A sanctioned former Kremlin politician was sued for shares in his multi-billion-dollar fertiliser company. But why did a trio ...

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

Supporting Ukraine does not mean supporting NATO. It means being on the side of the oppressed people against the oppressor.

From industrial juggernaut to economic disaster, the Soviet Union’s economy tells the dramatic story of a global superpower ...

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

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 ...

Trump is having a hard time quitting Putin despite his uncharacteristically candid assessment of him during a July 8 Cabinet ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...

By the second half of 1989, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s relaxation of controls under the names of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) had caused the Soviet Union to founder.

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

Between Gorbachev and Xi, no greater contrast is possible. One devolved the power of his position as Supremo of the CPSU to a fault, the other has taken over all the key centres of the CCP. Yet, given ...