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In Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. 30, 2018, China's President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders' Summit. (Mikhail Metzel/Tass/Abaca Press/TNS)

A Look Into the Authoritarian World Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Hope to Create

I intended this column to focus on Elizabeth Economy’s important new book, "The World According to China," which describes Xi Jinping’s vision for China’s future dominance in the world. This book…

Trudy Rubin 22 January 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin / Reuters

Russia Thinks America Is Bluffing

As talks between US and Russian diplomats begin in Geneva over the fate of Ukraine, Europe stands on the brink of war. The US strategy is to negotiate with Russia while threatening “devastating”…

Chris Miller 16 January 2022

Pro-Russian separatists from the Chechen “Death” battalion walk during a training exercise in the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine, December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

What Putin Really Wants in Ukraine

As 2021 came to a close, Russia presented the United States with a list of demands that it said were necessary to stave off the possibility of a large-scale military conflict in Ukraine. In a draft…

Dmitri Trenin 03 January 2022

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Joe Biden meet for talks at the Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, 2021. (TNS)

Can Putin Shift Into Legacy Rethink?

Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is there can be no instant…

Martin Schram 19 June 2021

The Price of Peace in the Donbas

Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyhas staked his presidency on ending the war againstMoscow-backed insurgents in the Donbas region of easternUkrainein a manner that will not break his country…

Thomas Graham and Joseph Haberman 06 March 2020

Mikhail Mishustin: From Little-Know Tax Chief to the Second Most Powerful Politician in Russia

When Russians woke up on the morning on January 16, few knew the name Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin, the head of the country’s tax service. But by the time they went to bed that night,…

Al Majalla - London 31 January 2020

Putin Welcomes Stalin Back to the Pantheon

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…

Andrei Kolesnikov 12 October 2019

Moscow’s Nuclear Enigma

Talk to anybody in Washington and you will hear an ominous mantra: the Russians are back. A resurgent Moscow is sowing discord among Western states and trying to re-establish its sphere of influence…

Olga Oliker 12 November 2018

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