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 ...

One possibility now is that, post-peace deal, European and other troops will police a ceasefire in Ukraine. Starmer claims to ...

By clinging to his war in Ukraine, Putin is deliberately driving Russia towards its collapse. He has shown the world the true ...

The world celebrates International Women’s Day each year on March 8. But did you know that the celebration has a strong Russian link dating back to 1917?

In 1917, when Russia was on the verge of revolution, 100,000 women marched down the streets of the Russian capital Petrograd, demanding bread, improved working conditions, and an end to the rule of ...

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

The Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process is going sideways, with belligerent rhetoric displacing hopes that a lasting ...

HE’S been back in the White House hardly seven weeks, yet Donald Trump has unleashed such a ­tsunami of policy changes that ...

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 ...