Russia Matters

Despite a century of women’s involvement in the region’s wars, Russian and Ukrainian women's involvement as combatants today echoes a global pattern where women are relegated to roles that distance them from frontline combat. 

On its current trajectory, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have to conscript pre-pension age males in the not-so-distance future.

During a discussion on the future of AI hosted by Graham Allison at the Harvard Institute of Politics, former Google chairman Eric Schmidt spoke on six areas of significant relevance for the future of AI.

The new Speaker of the House of Representatives initially expressed support for Ukraine in the context of Russia's war in Ukraine, but has since shown resistance to the provision of aid for Ukraine.

As Russia seeks cracks in Western countries’ united efforts to sanction Russia over its war against Ukraine, U.S. policymakers and their allies need to better explain not only the motifs, but also the goals of their punitive measures against Russia’s...

The U.S. needs to get Russia right, which requires America to see Russia “plainly and without sentiment,” Graham writes in his new book.

What has the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Russia? See our compilation for his observations and recommendations for countering “the acute threat of Russia.”

We analyzed five metrics—the percent of Ukraine’s territory occupied, monthly change in territorial control, the number of daily territorial change reports, fatality rate and artillery fire—to assess how the onset of winter impacted fighting intensit...