How German Capital and Ukrainian Innovation Are Upending the Balance of Power in Eastern Europe BERLIN — For decades after the Cold War, Germany was defined by a foreign policy...
MOSCOW — For two decades, Vladimir V. Putin offered the Russian public an unwritten social contract: leave politics to the Kremlin, and in return, your daily life will remain stable,...
CHITA, Russia — The tailback stretches into the blue horizon along the Trans-Siberian Highway, an unbroken, exhaust-heavy ribbon of thousands of idling long-haul rigs. Drivers, stranded for up to four...
Cracks in the Kremlin’s Armor: How a Fuel Crisis and Public Fury Are Shaking Putin’s Grip on Russia Across the Russian Federation, from the gleaming streets of Moscow and Saint...
In a swift, multi-axis offensive that has drastically altered the geometry of the war in southern Ukraine, elite Ukrainian forces have breached Russian defensive lines to a depth of 25...
WASHINGTON — In a sudden and calculated escalation that redefines the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, United States forces launched a coordinated, high-intensity strike against Iranian naval assets and...
SEBASTOPOL — For eight years following its illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Kremlin pitched the sun-drenched Black Sea peninsula to its citizens as a sovereign paradise, an untouchable...
BANDAR ABBAS, Iran — For decades, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps projected power across the Middle East from the jagged coastal ridges and sprawling naval yards of southern Iran. Today,...
When Vladimir Putin reached into Pyongyang to extract millions of artillery shells and thousands of combat troops, the Kremlin framed the move as a masterstroke of pragmatic wartime necessity. Desperate...
MOSCOW — For more than two decades, the halls of the State Duma operated as little more than a polished rubber stamp for the Kremlin, a carefully choreographed theater of...