Russia is not a littoral nation of just one great body of water in the Caspian. It also has its entire northern expanse along the Arctic...
The geopolitical implication to the sudden fall in oil prices has had broad-reaching ramifications for a number of very powerful countries. Two of those countries, Russia...
2012 was fruitful for Russian legislators and painful for the NGOs. That year marked the series of laws threatening the fragile civil society in the country:...
The Orthodox Church and the Christian tradition have always assumed a role of primary importance in Russian history and tradition.
There have been numerous articles on the authoritarian strengthening of power in Russia and Putin’s backsliding from democracy throughout the 2000s. Russian positions and initiatives in...
As a new wave of non-Western countries strive to elevate their profiles and expand their global influence, Russia is taking steps to help secure its future...
Last March, as Russia annexed Crimea, the European Union, Canada and the United States imposed sanctions – travel bans and asset freezes against some of the...
A stronger EU-Russia partnership now looks like a pipe-dream, reflects former foreign minister Igor Ivanov. On the plus-side he sees less hypocrisy on both sides, and...
In some ways the United States has played a very strange self-injurious game since 1991 when it comes to Russia. On the one hand, it expects...
If you spend some time listening to reputable news shows all across the West you will start to notice several recurring ‘interpretations’ that explain all things...