The Great Reverse Migration For a decade, the Crimean Peninsula was celebrated in Moscow’s state-controlled media as the ultimate triumph of Vladimir Putin’s imperial resurgence. Subsidized by billions of rubles,...
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Deep beneath the dense pine forests of the Suwałki Gap, where the borders of Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus intersect in a narrow corridor of strategic tension, the...
VERKHNY LARS, Georgia-Russia Border — High in the jagged gorges of the Caucasus Mountains, where the military highway winds toward the Georgian frontier, the tail lights stretch into the darkness...
For years, the sprawling Italianate palace perched atop the rugged cliffs of Cape Idokopas, overlooking the Black Sea near Gelendzhik, served as the ultimate monument to Vladimir Putin’s absolute authority....
MOSCOW — In the early hours of August 18, the air-raid sirens that have echoed across Ukrainian cities for four and a half years finally tore through the night skies...
As precision strikes cripple domestic refineries, severe fuel shortages, a burgeoning run on private bank deposits, and sporadic street-level unrest shatter the Kremlin’s carefully curated illusion of wartime normal. MOSCOW...
A paralyzing domestic energy crisis and an accelerating campaign of hybrid warfare have converged to put the Russian Federation under severe structural strain, exposing deep vulnerabilities within the Kremlin’s wartime...
When Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met in Beijing on the eve of the 2022 Winter Olympics to declare a friendship with “no limits,” the Kremlin envisioned a historic realignment....
Behind the fortified perimeter of the Kremlin, inside the marble corridors where wartime policy is forged in secrecy, an explosive term has returned to official deliberations: mobilizatsiya. For nearly four...
LONDON — Deep within the industrial heartland of Russia, hundreds of miles from the muddy trenches of the Donbas, a new reality of modern warfare has taken shape in plumes...