U.S. protests over race have given some Russians an excuse to bash America. Others fear street action in Russia is a distant dream. By Helen Womack Russians have watched in disbelief as protests have swept the United States over the police killing of black American...
By Julian Nundy An exchange of prisoners has always been a priority among moves needed to restart efforts to end Ukraine’s war with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region, a conflict that has killed an estimated 13,000 people in five years....
By Bernd Debusmann The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) turned 70 in April. The anniversary prompted a flood of stories that all but ignored the defense alliance’s adversary and counterweight in the Cold War: the Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw Pact was...
By Bernd Debusmann Jr. Despite polls showing the contrary, to many of us who grew up in the West it may seem hard to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is popular among Russians. This is a man, after all, who has been accused of crushing dissent in his own...
By Rashad Mammadov The U.S. Congress has approved another round of sanctions on Russia. The measures may look simply like the umpteenth diplomatic move following Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, but this time they could have dire consequences not only...
