This year got off to a bad start. Oil prices fell to below $30 per barrel and a budget deficit of at least 5 percent seemed inevitable. But now Russia's political elite ...

As a Muscovite, it seemed to me in 2004 that the events unfolding in Ukraine would determine the future of Russia.

President Vladimir Putin's speech before the UN General Assembly this coming Monday has every chance of becoming the main Russian foreign policy event of the year, writes columnist Vladislav Inozemtsev.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is currently in Beijing to attend a celebration of the 70th anniversary of Allied Powers' victory over Japan in World War II.

Belarus has taken many dubious and even strange steps in recent years that Russia has dutifully emulated like a devoted pupil.

The Eastern Partnership summit began in Riga yesterday. It brings together six former Soviet republics that are striving, in various degrees, to cooperate with the European Union.

Russia needs to rethink how it celebrates Victory Day, writes columnist Vladislav Inozemtsev.

Last spring, after Russia annexed Crimea and began intervening in eastern Ukraine, the United States and the European Union introduced sanctions against Russian individuals and businesses.

The ruble's rapid collapse at the end of 2014 — and the resulting rush to buy foreign currency, the mobs of shoppers snatching up consumer goods and the panic on the financial ...

The American people can have faith that the system works and that these words will lead to the promised actions. Not so in Russia.