So ran the page one headline of the Financial Times on the victory of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Sunday’s elections. Abe is the most nationalistic leader of postwar Japan. He is rebooting nuclear ...

Editor’s Note: This article is the fourth installment in a series on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s succession dilemma, featuring Anna Putina-Tsivilyova, Dmitri Patrushev, and Mikhail Mishustin.

The term “fascism” is increasingly used to describe the agenda and actions of the current Russian state under Russian President Vladimir Putin. Today’s use of this label has three dimensions: It is a ...

For three years, I was President Barack Obama’s Russia adviser on the National Security Council and, for two, the U.S. ambassador to Russia. In that time, no assumption drove me crazier than this one ...

Somebody is out to get Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Or somebody is setting up Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Or both. Or neither. But regardless, something pretty weird appears to be going ...

Walter Laqueur is a historian and the author of Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, from which this article is adapted. As the Ukraine crisis settles into what appears to be a long ...

Smith, Moulton, Murphy, Gallego and Courtney are, respectively, representatives for Washington, Massachusetts, Florida, Arizona and Connecticut in the United States Congress. Our country faces a new ...

After the 2016 election, the American Left developed a new disdain for Russia. If for the longest time following the collapse of the USSR it continued treating the Eurasian bear with a kind of ...

It took less than two weeks and it happened so quietly you could easily miss it. In a dry press release late Monday, the oil giant Rosneft announced that Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin was stepping ...

So ran the page one headline of the Financial Times on the victory of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Sunday’s elections. Abe is the most nationalistic leader of postwar Japan. He is rebooting nuclear ...

As the Ukraine crisis settles into what appears to be a long stalemate, perhaps it is time to consider the future of Russian recalcitrance to the West — and who and what may follow in the footsteps of ...