Putin’s election was flawed, but there is no doubt of his popularity.

Putin’s surprising exegesis on the Russian past strikes a deracinated people as perverse.

The war is a disaster in every sense.

The rise of the Wagner Group signals a significant change in power politics.

Gorbachev inherited an empire that was ready to dissolve.

Time is a weapon of war.

There is no moral equivalence between Ukraine and Russia, but neither country is Nazi Germany.