When the young Finnish woman left her home country in the 1930s, she was headed for Stalin's Soviet Russia, lured by the dream of living in a worker's paradise. But that dream turned into a nine ...

If German Chancellor Olaf Scholz undertook to condemn those who support the real ultra-right in Europe, he should start with self-condemnation. This was stated by the official representative of the ...

Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia, and that democracy ...

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As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.

Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler) of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. At least 14 people were killed in Poltava ...

The result of the government’s policy on agriculture will be a drop in harvests "to the Soviet level – rock bottom," Zlochevsky said. Background: Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is increasingly worried ...

The next Sputnik Moment will take place against the backdrop of great power competition, as it did in the 1950s. This time, ...

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