On a balmy summer evening in the posh Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, movie stars and industry players mingled around the pool and on...

WASHINGTON — The plainclothes officers found the scholar in a state archive poring over texts on 19th-century provincial life in Russia. They...

Since Vladimir Putin's rise, many hands have been wrung down to the bone in the West over his KGB pedigree. Fortunately there are journalists such as Andrei...