Putin now has to deal with an American administration that expects little from Moscow, wants even less, and to add insult to injury, is unperturbed.

The opposition leader is setting up a showdown with both Putin and the people. Who will rise to the occasion?

Like Putin, Trump sees no distinction between the national interest and his own.

The level of confrontation between the Kremlin and the Russian opposition has increased, and along with it the scale and severity of the law-enforcement...

If Russia’s police and judiciary can no longer provide the problem-solving services to which "clients" have become accustomed, those clients will look...

We cannot know what exactly the Kremlin means to do with its soon-to-be-minted citizens in Donbass.

Having lost interest in dancing, Russians are returning to their private, individual cares.

Putin's longtime aide Vladislav Surkov published another magnum opus that will almost surely have the pundits hopping.

If Russian liberals think they've got it bad, they should stop for a moment to consider the plight of Alexander Bastrykin.

It is commonly said that the Internet is an open and free medium. It is also said that there should be no rules governing the Internet, that it can...