Now, he has "written an even more gripping follow-up, about taking Gilbert & George to Moscow, Beijing and Shanghai". Birch ...

The hardest lesson to learn from the war in Ukraine is that there is still no substitute for allies who show up when the fighting begins.

Throughout Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, repeated and escalating warnings of the potential for a wider war have ...

Plus, Trump says negotiators in Washington and Moscow have begun discussing the division of assets between Russia and Ukraine ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

With President Donald Trump's suspension of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, European nations are again looking at how to ...

by Charles Hecker Perhaps nothing better captures the optimism that accompanied the last days of the Soviet Union than the opening of a McDonald’s in Moscow, in January of 1990. Tens of ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine, his aim was to sweep into the capital, Kyiv, in a matter of days. He wanted to overthrow the pro-Western government ...

For too long, we in the West have underestimated Putin’s global ideological vision as an animating force for his foreign-policy agenda. The tragic consequence is that today Putinism is advancing ...

The hikers were found dead outside their tent. Some barefoot. Some naked. Some radioactive. All outside in the darkness of remote Russia, then the USSR, in 1959. Their leader, Igor Dyatlov, 23, an ...

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and ...