Czech journalist Petra Procházková recounts Putin’s 1999 rise from obscurity, sparked by his mafioso “crapper” speech after ...

A martyred opposition leader embodies the snuffed-out potential of a free Russia in this labyrinthine debut history. Journalist Fishman recaps the career of Boris Nemtsov, a physicist turned ...

When the future looks back to Vladimir Putin’s murder-war in Ukraine, what will it see? Russia’s unlawful invasion unleashed ...

A prominent Russian blogger who made a name for himself doing the Kremlin’s bidding was sent to a psychiatric hospital after publicly turning on Vladimir Putin in a shocking manifesto earlier this ...

The authoritative French daily Le Monde was forced to admit yesterday that it had fallen hook, line and sinker for un gros poisson d'avril - a monumental April fool - in publishing what purported to ...

He renamed the organisation the FSB - Federal Security Service - but somehow the spirit of the KGB lived on. Not all the ...

On Easter Sunday, Donald Trump posted to his failing, Nazi-infested social media site a rant that has shocked the world, ...

A year later, on 2 April 1997, the presidents of Belarus and Russia signed the Treaty on the Union of Belarus and Russia in Moscow. Since then, 2 April has been observed as the Day of Unity of the ...

MOSCOW – For a long time, it was believed that Vladimir Putin had no ideology. A classic kleptocrat, the Russian President simply strived to maintain his power at all costs. But a surrogate ideology, ...

Luca Barnabé reviews Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin, tracing power, media and ambition in post-Soviet Russia ...

Roman Abramovich has attended peace talks in Turkey today between Ukraine and Russia a day after it was revealed the oligarch ...

Despite the extreme concentration of power in the hands of Vladimir Putin, responsibility for key political decisions in ...