Russia Matters

Our review of 22 years of official statements makes it clear that, typically, Putin has publicly signaled shifts in his views on Ukraine before translating them into policy.

The United States has pushed forward policies toward Ukraine that Putin and other Russian leaders see as an existential threat, a point they have made repeatedly for many years.

While a majority of Russians are growing more apprehensive of NATO, according to recent Levada Center polls, a third say they are not particularly frightened by the possibility that Russia could use nuclear weapons in a conflict with the West.

We asked Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Melinda Haring to explain why they agree or disagree with propositions put forward by Kissinger and Soros at this year's World Economic Forum about the Russian-Ukrainian war and how to deal with Russia.

Would the world be better off with Putin out of power? In this compilation, we have gathered statements by Western and Russian commentators who state or suggest just that, or at least try to explain the thinking of those who hold such a view.

This week, Nikolai Patrushev said Poland is poised to seize Ukrainian land, comments that fit into Patrushev’s steady portrayal of an “aggressive” U.S.-led West bent on destroying Russia and build on his recent claims about other nefarious Western pl...

The Kremlin seems intent on achieving a victory on the battlefield, while relations between the West and Russia plummet to new lows. One casualty: U.S.-Russian arms control negotiations.

Force structure reveals a great deal about a military and its assumptions of what wars it plans to fight and how it plans to fight them.