Moscow-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s health is in question, and speculation about succession is rife. The Kremlin wants to keep Chechnya quiet, especially amid the war on Ukraine. Kadyrov ...

Britons might be surprised to learn how much hatred their country receives from Russia - with threats of nuclear obliteration ...

The Soviet Union spent more than 40 years trying to achieve what has just been handed to Vladimir Putin on a plate.

It’s a feature of authoritarian regimes: a patina of reasonableness, swiftly followed by brutal crackdown, R. Bruce Anderson ...

There were unpleasant scenes outside the Russian Foreign Ministry as the British charge d’affaires, Danae Dholakia, left the ...

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

We don't know if Maduro’s ousting will make freedom ring for oppressed Venezuelans, but that message would resonate worldwide ...

Iranians have not become monarchists — they are seeking anyone who can replace a despotic regime at war with its own people ...

Barely a decade after President Barack Obama announced a “pivot” to Asia, America’s commitment to the region is as tenuous as it was in 1975.

But Trump is a personalist leader: one that concentrates power around himself and his inner circle. Personalists differ from ordinary autocrats or dictators in that they hollow out the governing ...

He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of “Company,” “Titanic” and “Six Degrees of Separation” and from many movie ...

The Constitution grants Congress, not the president, authority over territorial matters. Trump cannot unilaterally acquire territory, regardless of his health concerns or legacy ambitions. He would ...