Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield. Russia is slowly losing the economic conflict at a ...

It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for the West to appreciate that things weren’t all that rosy in ...

Although some policymakers and experts may have viewed the regime as fragile, the working assumption among most people was ...

The Soviet Union's economy was as influential as it was controversial. Discover the rise and fall of this historic system and ...

Putin’s strategic victory in Ukraine was far from inevitable a fortnight ago and it is less inevitable now after the Assad regime collapsed like a house of cards, shattering Putin’s credibility in the ...

Few foresaw the sudden and total collapse of the Soviet regime, though all the signs of economic decay and imperial overreach were there to see by 1989. Putin’s regime is not yet at this point ...

In Putin’s consideration, there is no Ukrainian nation in Europe. The Ukrainians and Russians are nothing but one people ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

The future of Russia’s military bases in Syria remains uncertain, but Moscow has already begun efforts to secure some foothold in the region—with or without Assad. If Russia manages to maintain a ...

Within just a few years, the Soviet Union collapsed, opening the door for the US to emerge as the world’s only fully dominant power. Given recent events, however, it may be time to dust off ...

As conflict deepens, conservative commentators pointed to claims of U.S. officials discussing sending old weaponry to Ukraine ...