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

In Bucharest, one family showed me the hidden shelf in a closet where they kept the short-wave radio on which each evening ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...