Since the end of the Cold War, everyU.S.president has come into office promising to build better relations with Russia—and each one has watched that vision evaporate. The first three—Bill Clinton…

OnNovember 10, 1982, the Soviet leaderLeonid Brezhnevdied. The editors ofPravda, the country’s main newspaper, confronted something of a dilemma. A black frame would surround the front page to…

The Russians took and held Kramatorsk, a small city in easternUkraine, for about three months in 2014. Since then, the only battles this town has seen have taken place in the kitchen. Or several…

Iran has announced on Monday that it has surpassed the limit of low-enriched uranium it could stockpile under the 2015 nuclear agreement. Although it this is technically not a major escalation, its…

Earlier this month, The White House announced that U.S., Israeli and Russian national security advisers would meet in Jerusalem in June to discuss regional security issues. According to the…

In March of 1969, Chinese troops ambushed and killed a Soviet border patrol on an island near the Chinese-Russian border. Fighting on and near the island lasted for months and ended with hundreds of…

On the morning ofSunday, March 10, thousands of people gathered in the center ofMoscowto protest proposed new legislation cracking down on Internet freedom. They waved placards saying “Save the…

The Ukrainian presidential election is only weeks away, and its outcome is highly uncertain. PresidentPetro Poroshenkois lagging in the polls behindVolodymyr Zelensky, a television actor whose only…

Early last week, Russia concluded Vostok-2018, its largest military exercise since the fall of the Soviet Union. It wasn’t just their size, however, that made the recent war games so groundbreaking…

Russia has made itself the arbiter of events in Syria. Its military intervention and use of intensive bombing allowed it to change the balance of forces on the ground and save the Assad regime. But…