A collection of 62 posts
A wiser Russian leadership could transform Siberia from a region known for penal colonies and poverty into one of prosperity and connectivity.
Former Israeli politician and refusenik, Natan Sharansky, speaks about his correspondence with Alexei Navalny and his nine years in USSR prisons.
The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.
Why are some in Russia and Eastern Europe pining for the communist system that once oppressed them?
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.
Ukraine has therefore pursued multiple legal avenues in response to the aggression.
The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident.
The restoration of a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky in Moscow illuminates the gulf that now divides Russian society.
Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities.
Sean Penn’s surprising new documentary explores “extreme history” in war-torn Ukraine.
In a new book, the historian traces modern Russian aggression to an apocalyptic mythology rooted deep in the nation’s past.
Prigozhin’s coup attempt raises a number of questions to which there are no reassuring answers.
A new book by historian Ian Garner investigates how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia into a fascist society.
Ukraine has been instrumental in restoring a focus on what matters to the people and elected leaders of the West.
It is not just Western officials who worry that Zelensky’s determination to defend Bakhmut at all costs will cripple his army’s effectiveness.