For too long, we in the West have underestimated Putin’s global ideological vision as an animating force for his ...

The Kyiv Independent's Chris York sits down with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and political scientist, to discuss the Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations, U.S. President Donald Trump ...

MOSCOW - How did "Putinism" - that distinctively Russian blend of authoritarian politics and dirigiste economics - happen? And, now that it has, how can Russians move beyond it, to realize the rights ...

This Strategic Update from Philippe Roman Chair Anne Applebaum analyses them. In a state where authority is still vested in personalities, not in institutions, the Russian president’s vision of his ...

The tragic consequence is that today Putinism is advancing across Europe and the United States. In the beginning, Putin was an accidental leader. After Russia’s 1998 financial crash, its ...

For three years, I was President Barack Obama’s Russia adviser on the National Security Council and, for two, the U.S. ambassador to Russia. In that time, no assumption drove me crazier than ...