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

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 ...

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

Despite having wasted the lives of perhaps 200,000 Russian soldiers, his army is still failing to overwhelm Ukraine’s forces.

Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the ...

This is not the first time of course that the domino theory has been applied to Russia. Many of us will remember how North Vietnam was portrayed as a 'Communist' stooge – a Soviet Union proxy – and ...

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