U.S.-led sanctions have hit Russian oil exports. Moscow has accused Ukraine of trying to strike its last gas pipeline into Europe.

Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler) of In ...

Nervous neighbors imagined Moscow launching a modern blitzkrieg, conquering much of Europe and establishing a new Russian Empire. Then came Putin’s February invasion of Ukraine. Seven months ...

Putin’s imperialism has failed to produce a new Russian empire — which doesn’t mean that he’ll stop with Ukraine. Quite the contrary, given his ambitions, Putin is sure to attempt to seize ...

Although it might not be a breaking moment for the Russian people, it won't likely see support for the war increase. "In fact, there was a new public opinion poll that suggests that while there is ...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] ...

2. A deterred China in the Pacific Just as Putin views the seizure of Ukraine as essential to the new Russian empire he envisions, Chinese President Xi Jinping sees the return of Taiwan to ...

Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia basically hopeless, many Jewish families left ...