“President Vladimir Putin has concluded that military escalation is the best way to force Ukraine into talks on his terms and that Donald Trump is unlikely to do much to bolster Kyiv’s defenses, ...

Military and security aspects of the Ukraine conflict and their impacts: "These Charts Show How Putin Is Defying Trump by Escalating Airstrikes on Ukraine," Jane Lytvynenko, Ming Li and Emma Brown, ...

Areas of expertise include: Russia, Eurasia, political development, energy security and national security. Russia Matters editorial board member.

Russia: +28,318 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the size of the U.S. state of Iowa). Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea ...

Ukrainian officials stress that recent Russian advances are not a major breakthrough and may be intended to disrupt Ukrainian supply routes. (ISW, 08.27.27) Ukraine said it hit two Russian oil ...

Please join the Belfer Center’s Russia Matters for a discussion. From the top levels of Washington to the general public, polarization has become an inescapable fact of life in the U.S. During this ...

More comments by Putin during his visit to China can be found here and here (in Russian). Original headline: “Отложенный переход на мирное время. Владимир Путин приехал в Китай за ярлыком на ...

In a recent editorial by The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board, entitled “Russian Drone Parts, Made in China,” the editors make the point that “Trump hasn’t been able to stop Xi Jinping’s support ...

“[N]either West Germany nor South Korea gave up their aspirations and claims to recover occupied lands. On the other hand, Russians remind us that at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union had ...

The share of Russians who favor peace talks on resolving the Russian-Ukrainian war over continuing the hostilities has crept up to a record level: 65.9%, according to the Levada Center’s August poll.

This is a repost of the full text of an interview published with permission, by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. When I first started thinking about an issue of the Bulletin focused on the changes ...