In another timeline, recent weeks might have yielded shifts in leadership for both Russia and Ukraine. Bookending Putin’s inauguration at...

On the heels of the Russian inauguration, ushering in Putin’s fifth term in office and marking a 25-year-long tenure of power and in the...

Following the resolution of US aid for Ukraine, we journey back across the Atlantic to take the temperature in the post-Soviet sphere and...

If observers of the war were to agree on a descriptor for the latter half of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, it would likely be....

Beyond the Kremlin’s stated objectives of ‘denazifying Ukraine’ and ‘reunifying the Russian World’ - past the besieged nation’s...

On February 16, 2024, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service announced that opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and...

The last two weeks have been consequential for Russia. As anticipated, Vladimir Putin was elected to his fifth term in office, overtaking...

Last Friday, nations and peoples around the globe observed International Women’s Day (though notably, some did not). Womanhood and gender...

This anniversary looks a bit different from the first. In the intervening year - and within the 24-hour news cycle - the Ukraine war...

Following a week of developments that piqued the interest of global media outlets, we turn to the ripples emanating from the Ukraine war...