“It’s morning in America,” so claimed the original MAGA President Ronald Reagan (1980-88). He was bullish on America in the last quarter of the 20th century. Here we can discover from him the ...

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 ...

Patrick Nebout and Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, creators of the multi-prized "Whiskey on the Rocks" which smashed ratings ...

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

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

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

The bloody crackdown offers hints about growing tensions inside the country’s ruling system as the cleric’s rule comes under ...

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

Yury Ushakov wanted Spanish ham and porridge made with low-fat milk. The request vexed his aides. They were in Mongolia, for ...

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

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

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 ...