Democracy is in crisis around the world, and nowhere is that more visible than in Central Asia – a region that is facing the rise of the populist authoritarians. For major global and regional...
Russia has had a very low number of COVID-19 deaths, but many of its officials have been infected with the novel coronavirus. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin was diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 back in...
In the popular tradition of the sea, a captain is required to stay on a sinking ship until all the passengers have been safely evacuated. In Russia, where the economy is sinking due to the collapse...
In case you missed it, there’s a little thing called the longest government shutdown in history going on in the richest nation in the world right now — and it has to do with the sentient wig we...
We’ve all been there. You used to love him, but now all he does is annoy you with his endless rants about the new Star Wars (we’ve been over this a thousand times — FINN IS ABSOLUTELY A GOOD...
It’s been a terrible week for diplomacy. For global stability. For U.S. leadership. And for customer service. First we asked Russia to stop being communist, now we’re telling it that when it...
With civil war tearing Syria apart, there are two ways Russian President Vladimir Putin can deal with the issue : the old way and the clever way. The old way would be to maintain the status quo,...
Recently, Russia has made a number of aggressive foreign policy decisions in Syria. When looking in depth, it becomes apparent that these newly assertive moves have the opportunity to generate...
March 2015 is seeing the looming prospect of yet more economic sanctions being levelled by the western powers against both Iran and Russia. As of writing the European Union is preparing to introduce...
In a muscular speech on March 18th before a joint session of the Russian parliament announcing the annexation of Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked a deep sense of grievance about the...
