If Russia wins in Ukraine — however victory is defined — Putin will be flush with self-confidence and arrogance, his ...

The 2022 invasion came as a shock to many of Russia’s neighbors in eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, ...

Russia’s conquest of the Far East is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of imperial expansion. What was once an inhospitable wilderness,Siberia, the Pacific coastline, and territories ...

The statement by right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel about the “last summer of peace” articulates the bloodthirsty ...

This article was updated to include The New York Times' response to the criticism, sent to The Kyiv Independent via email.

Vladimir Sorokin. Photograph by Maria Sorokina. My problems started much earlier than the night before deadline—they started ...

This is an admission both of Russia’s being (and always having been) an empire, and of the subordinate status of its non-Russian nations, brought into the imperial fold by soldiers — that is ...

This bodes ill for Putin. If Russia doesn’t really exist as a nation, then he becomes little more than a puppet at the mercy of historical forces — and his imperial ambitions are doomed to fail.

Rasti Delizo is a global affairs analyst, veteran socialist activist and former vice-president of the Bukluran ng ...

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power entity to fill development gaps created by the dismantling of the US Agency ...

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Magomedsalam Magomedov took part in the 16th Congress Anthropologists and Ethnologists, held in Perm on July 2–6.

Neoliberal globalized capitalism spread across the globe at the turn of the 1990s following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Warsaw Pact, and ...