Russia

Putin’s Lies Hide Weakness

Russia John Sipher - September 19, 2025.

For half a millennium, Russia has projected itself as a great power, but its history is less one of enduring strength than of perpetual weakness...

Russia shows off conventional and nuclear military might in drills — and raises tensions with NATO

Russia TA | AP Insight - September 16, 2025.

A swarm of Russian drones flies into Poland in what officials there regard as a deliberate provocation. NATO responds by bolstering the alliance’s air defenses on...

Modi and Putin affirm special relationship as India faces steep US tariffs over Russian oil imports

Russia TA | AP Insight - September 1, 2025.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of a regional summit in China on Monday in a show...

Immigrants from Asia find hostility and violence in Russia

Russia TA | AP Insight - August 22, 2025.

The immigrant worker from Uzbekistan entered the bank in Moscow, but when he reached the teller, she refused to serve him and she wouldn't say...

The USSR’s squalid legacy

Russia Carl Bildt - August 20, 2025.

Many gasped when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov landed in Anchorage, Alaska, for the Trump-Putin summit wearing a sweater with the letters CCCP – the...

Russia’s economy is fast approaching a fiscal crunch

Russia Anders Åslund - August 10, 2025.

The Russian economy is not collapsing, but it is stagnant and suffering high inflation. And this economic decline could be a tipping point, because Russia may...

Trump's “Sanctions Deadline” Is Running Out—Will Putin Change Course?

Russia Iuliia Mendel, TA Kyiv - August 5, 2025.

President Trump’s “10- or 12-day” deadline for Putin is running out this week. This isn’t the first deadline Trump has set in an effort to...

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