The veteran Russian politician, 63, tried to challenge Vladimir Putin's regime and its war in Ukraine through legal and electoral means. He failed. Facing the threat of arrest, he decided to leave ...
"The reaction failed!" — with this headline, the latest issue of Izvestia was published on August 21, 1991. On that day, the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKCHP) finally collapsed, and ...
In this interview, the Kyiv Independent's Jason Blevins speaks with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a scholar who closely observed Russia's transition after the collapse of the ...
Vladimir Putin is reportedly panicking about a member of his inner circle scheming against him after his Navy Day parade ended in humiliation. The Russian president is expected to punish officials ...
August is known as the “cursed month” in Russia, and with good reason. The August coup of 1991 led to the final downfall of the Soviet Union. I was the Economist’s newly arrived Moscow correspondent ...
Vladimir Putin is reportedly panicking about a member of his inner circle scheming against him after his Navy Day parade ended in humiliation. The Russian president is expected to punish officials ...
The Russian president presiding over a meeting of the security council, June 2026. EPA/Pavel Byrkin/Sputnik/Kremlin pool Russia’s war against Ukraine is not going according to Vladimir Putin’s ...
Donald Trump’s sons are building a skyscraper in the Caucasus with a company co-owned by an oligarch who has shady ties to ...
This brilliant account of attempts by the old guard to take back control captures the ludicrousness of it all beautifully ...
One of Russia’s great living writers reveals the peculiar relationship between words and meanings in the world of the Kremlin. How many lies has the West swallowed?
The founder of Rusal, the owner of Aughinish Alumina plant in Co Limerick, Oleg Deripaska, officially stood down as its leader seven years ago but remains a key figure in Russia's economy and politics ...
12dOpinion
Russia poses real threat to UK as Andy Burnham warned of 'military crisis': Patrick Mercer
Between Fifa’s farrago, Mancunian magic and petrol price paranoia most people have been happy to accept that the war in ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results