Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.

W HEN ENVOYS of President Donald Trump travel the world making promises, demands and threats, do they speak for America’s ...

The ball is now in Russia 's court following Ukraine's 'breakthrough' acceptance of a notional 30-day ceasefire across all ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

The negotiations in Jeddah and the crucial decisions that followed can be considered a victory for Ukraine on the diplomatic ...

Dominic Alexander continues his series on revolutionary change in history by looking at the founding of Russian socialism ...

Two British diplomats expelled in a spying row. A blistering statement from Russia's foreign intelligence service calling ...

Ukrainian officials have not confirmed a retreat from the town in Russia’s Kursk region, parts of which were captured by Kyiv ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he didn’t support an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine, calling for more discussion on a ...