A high-profile meeting with Joe Biden will not constrain the Russian President, and risks legitimizing his ongoing domestic crackdown.

Both regimes justify their existence and legitimacy with reference to freedom because none can afford to rely on brute force alone.

It took Mikhail Gorbachev to break this cycle of fear and distrust back then. Who or what will it take today?

Russia's fierce reaction to Twitter's decision is rooted in the country's own painful experience with censorship and propaganda.

Even as the Soviet Union withered and declined, the KGB and the GRU seemed both more competent and, oddly, cleaner than the current security forces.

Political centralization has historically served as a major impediment to Russia’s democratization.

There will be many young people on the streets today. And at least one history professor.

The news that the former U.S. schoolteacher Jennifer Fichter was sentenced to 22 years in prison for multiple counts of sex with minors caused an uproar...

Thirty years ago, on March 24, 1982, Leonid Brezhnev made a speech in Tashkent that would set in motion the process of rapprochement between Moscow...