In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

Obsolete quadjets may become a thing again as Russia gears up to place the old Il-96-300 back into production.

On Monday, as I listened to President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech, I thought about Alexander Esenin-Volpin. It had been a morning of Trump updates that weren’t just upsetting, but also befuddling.

Yet, everything suggests that Russia is in a tight economic situation, which is likely to lead to minimal growth in 2025. In their classical article in Novy Mir in 1987, the two Soviet economists Vasily Selyunin and Grigory Khanin showed that the Soviet Union exaggerated its economic growth by about 3 percentage points each year by doctoring the

Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among Russia’s biggest boosters.

Russia maintains a formidable collection of air defense systems, but it is being challenged by new threats and new competitors.

The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the bottles he was given away from public view.

If Putin were to come to terms with Ukraine, ending his war of conquest, Trump could offer Russia a role in the Artemis program in exchange. The incoming U.S. president could point out that Russia has prospered as a result of the International Space Station partnership. Without that partnership, Russia would not be any kind of space power,

The Kremlin says it’s watching with “great interest” President-elect Trump’s ambitions for the U.S. to acquire Greenland.  Trump declined to rule out using military force in his pursuit of

The United Nations (UN) is the centrepiece of what is touted as the rules-based international order. The entrenched biases in these rules are, however, laid bare by the composition and voting procedures of its most powerful organ,

Nevertheless, Putin’s New Year’s message remained upbeat. He looked ahead to the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Germany in World War II, assuring the nation of its strength.

The presidents of Russia and Iran have signed a broad cooperation pact to deepen their partnership amid stinging Western sanctions.