Russia's environmental movement was once seen as a sign of healthy civil society. It's no surprise that the authorities are worried.

Russia's supposedly cutting-edge GigaChat MAX — based on DeepSeek — is still miles behind its Chinese and American competitors.

Putin will use any dialogue with the United States to show that Russia is a great power on the world stage.

Ukraine is facing a demographic crisis. Suggesting it reduces its draft age to 18 is a distraction from the failure of Kyiv's allies to provide enough...

Since the invasion of Ukraine, New Delhi’s relations with Moscow have come under considerable flak from the West.

The new administration must lead NATO to respond to Russia's attacks on the alliance because Moscow is waging war in the shadows.

Real lives are being treated as bargaining chips as they face brutal repression under Moscow's control.

Ukraine is thought to have 5% of the world's critical mineral resources. They could play a role in defining the country's future.

Purges and prosecutions have shown they aren't immune from the Kremlin. So what drives them to stay at their own risk?

Moscow could use Indonesia as a pool of manpower to make up for its military recruitment struggles and labor shortages in key industries.

The storm of government spending cannot address the chronic problems sending Russia's economy irreversibly toward economic stagnation.

War changes people – and the invasion of Ukraine has turned violent men into heroes in Russia.

Both states are isolated from much of the world politically and economically. In 2025, they could take things to the next level.

They are not happy with the war and have few ways of expressing that. Many feel guilt on a certain (very private) level.

While Rosatom remains unsanctioned, a French nuclear fuel manufacture still wants to do a deal with the Kremlin's atomic energy agency.

The Kremlin refuses to release child political prisoners because they know it would cause ordinary people to question the regime.

With the fall of Syria’s Moscow-supported regime, a large chunk of Russia’s leverage over Turkey is gone.

The International Atomic Energy Agency relies on the support of UN member states, including Russia.