Opinion

By Maxim Trudolyubov

By Maxim Trudolyubov

By Maxim Trudolyubov

By Maxim Trudolyubov

I don’t know whether the Kremlin even has a favorite in the U.S. elections, but I do know what Russia’s ruling politicians love to watch. They love seeing others get ...

By Vladimir Milov

By Vladimir Milov

By Vladimir Milov

By Vladimir Milov

Structurally, the “privatization” of one state company by another would only strengthen state domination in the industry, the exact opposite of what privatization should lead to. Economically, it also makes ...

By Grigor Atanesian

By Grigor Atanesian

By Grigor Atanesian

By Grigor Atanesian

That thousands of Yerevan residents should take to the streets, as they have done every day this past week, is no real surprise. But this summer’s protest is different — ...

By Katerina Sergatskova

By Katerina Sergatskova

By Katerina Sergatskova

By Katerina Sergatskova

The killing of journalist Pavel Sheremet shocked everyone who knew him. Belarussian by birth, Russian by citizenship, and most recently a resident of Ukraine, Pavel was not afraid of speaking ...

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

Щепетильный: meticulous. There’s nothing like a Russian word to keep you up at night, force you to pull out a 12-pound thesaurus and a pile of reference books, and leave ...

By Tanya Lokshina

By Tanya Lokshina

By Tanya Lokshina

By Tanya Lokshina

Kostyantyn Beskorovayny spent 15 months jailed secretly by the Ukrainian Security Services (SBU). An active member of the Communist party, he was no supporter of Ukraine’s government- but not a ...

By Yevgeny Slyusarenko

By Yevgeny Slyusarenko

By Yevgeny Slyusarenko

By Yevgeny Slyusarenko

The next several days will make sports history. Russian athletics are facing global accusations of the existence of a state-sponsored doping system, and at least some of the charges appear ...

By Fyodor Lukyanov

By Fyodor Lukyanov

By Fyodor Lukyanov

By Fyodor Lukyanov

The failed attempt to overthrow Turkish President Recep Erdogan serves as a “super-vote” of confidence for the leader, blotting out his previous failures. He now has carte blanche to do ...

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

Russia has waged a war on terror at home and abroad. But when Moscow calls for joining forces with the West to combat global terrorism, it inevitably pursues a hidden ...

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

One of the tricky places in Russian is the cognate zone: that place where English and Russian words that sound alike and have the same root hang out and dream ...

By John Lough

By John Lough

By John Lough

By John Lough

Deepening divisions in the European Union that came to a dramatic head with the Brexit vote have not found their way into NATO. Instead, the Alliance appears to have rediscovered ...

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

Time for a pop quiz! What is гаврик? a) a nickname for Gavriil; b) a sleeping mat for dogs, a conflation of гав (bark) and коврик (small rug); c) a ...

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

There have been arrests and releases, petty prosecutions and sensible legal revisions. The overall trend in Russia may be toward a tougher line on potential dissent, but the path is ...

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

Moscow has been taking stock of its forceful policies to reassert Russia’s status as a great global power and to roll back the expansion of Western institutions into the former ...

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

You're standing in the entryway of your apartment building, glancing at the utility bills you've just taken out of your mailbox. You see your neighbor step out of the elevator, ...

The Moscow International film festival on Tuesday screened “The Magnitsky Act — Behind the Scenes.”

It is a striking sight: Dozens of brightly burning objects light up the night, slowly descending to the ground. It looks like a magnificent display of fireworks, but the burning ...

If there is anything the last two years should have taught us, it is that the unthinkable can happen — separatism, disintegration, even wars — and that it can happen ...