This essay examines the sources of Russian power and conduct from an historical, cultural and geopolitical perspective. It aims to help assessment of Russia’s future behaviour. My approach is based on ...

Just as the West used arcane Kremlinology to predict how the Soviet Union would behave, now Ukraine and Russia are resorting ...

As he prepares to take office, President-elect Donald Trump says he hope to meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin “very quickly” ...

Once a powerful Russian oligarch, Vladimir Gusinsky has been tangled in legal disputes, mounting debts, and a bitter divorce.

Despite being a Ukrainian city, albeit with a large Russian-speaking minority, many residents of Odesa, the third-largest ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact between Moscow and ...

Empires are costly and inefficient, and imperialism is costly and counterproductive, with both combining to generate the very ...