KYIV — On the 35th anniversary of Ukrainian independence, Prime Minister Andy Burnham made his first trip abroad since taking office in July, and he did not arrive empty-handed. Standing...
WARSAW — At passport control in a Polish airport this month, a Russian traveler held up her documents, expecting the routine nod that had waved her through for years. Instead,...
WARSAW — On a stretch of forest and farmland just south of Russia’s most heavily armed outpost in Europe, a convoy of South Korean-built tanks rolled into position this August,...
MOSCOW — For a few chaotic nights in early September, Russia’s capital discovered what it feels like to be avoided. Passengers who had already boarded flights at Turkish airports were...
LONDON — Vladimir Putin has reportedly told people inside his own circle what he fears most is not losing on the battlefield. It is what happens to him afterward. “They...
MOSCOW — For two nights running, the skies over the Russian capital did something they were never supposed to do: they stopped being safe. Between the morning of September 2...
MOSCOW — For decades, Russia sold fuel to the world. This summer, it is the one begging for it. Across the country, from the boulevards of Moscow to the frozen...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Vladimir Putin stood before reporters here on September 1 and described a war going his way. Fifteen settlements taken in Donetsk in a single month. Two hundred...
TOKYO — For eighty years, Japan built its entire national identity around a single, unbreakable promise: never again would it wage war. That promise is now being rewritten in real...
ENGELS, Russia — A gunman on a motorcycle, his face hidden behind a helmet, pulled up outside a private home in the village of Probuzhdeniye just after 7 a.m. on...