Russian companies may not be able to use the war as a get-out-of-jail-free card if cyberattacks or Ukrainian drone strikes disrupt their services.

It's easy for your pacifism to be passive when you come from the world's largest country. But the rest of the world doesn't have that luxury.

Somehow, the conversation around hunting bears has gone from saving lives to having fun and training future soldiers.

The Trump administration’s one-off deals won’t empty Russia’s prisons — especially while U.S. deportations are refilling them.

Europe's security problems go much deeper than the simple presence of Russian tourists. Banning them distracts from those harder fixes.

Only three of the 20 companies Russia expropriated since Trump's inauguration had U.S. links. Any more would spoil the mood, wouldn't it?

The Kremlin's response to the fall of Aleksandar Vučić has been surprisingly tepid. That could change as the Student List takes shape.

Experiencing captivity both as the American Evan and the Russian Vanya, Gershkovich's account adds to the legacy of Solzhenitsyn and Ginzburg.

When Indigenous people seek autonomy, well-meaning liberals warn that they could end up with autocracy. But that is not inevitable.

Russians should be concerned about the power the Central Bank's new digital ruble would give the state over their finances.

Russia has a history of arresting foreign journalists as a political gambit — and the relationship between Moscow and Tokyo is rarely simple.

The story of Father Yakov shows the consequences of Kazakhstan not having an Orthodox Church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Women should be given a voice and taken seriously, not brushed aside as if the only problem the opposition faces is that Putin is in power.

If a billionaire can say he has little ability to influence Putin, how are Russians with no access to power supposed to do so?

Key Russian firms become so powerful that nobody else truly rivals them. That creates a weakness that Kyiv is all too happy to exploit.

The death of a laboratory worker in Irkutsk has turned the spotlight on how Russian laboratories can ensure workers' safety and earn public trust.

Driven more by domestic political concerns than any real strategy to end the war, Washington's latest moves shows how little Trump has learned.

After years of official secrecy, it’s no surprise that a suspected plague case has left Russians unsure what to believe about risks to their health.