We examine how Russia, despite its overwhelming military power, failed to win the First Chechen War. In this video, we trace the conflict from the initial invasion in 1994 to the eventual withdrawal ...

Europe failed…” You can fill in the blank in that sentence with almost anything, from digital sovereignty, responding to the ...

Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys with ‘We Believe You’ and Daniel Vidal Toche, with ‘The Anatomy of the Horses.’ ...

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump met in Washington with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan ...

Freed in a major prisoner swap, Aleksandra Skochilenko said “the values of freedom of speech, of peace, could be more ...

Russia has been experiencing an ongoing exodus of lawyers since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, driven by increasing government scrutiny and what many say is a systemic dismantling of an independent ...

The city of Pokrovsk is at the epicentre of the Ukraine war, with a third of all frontline clashes happening there ...

One of Trump’s political strengths, da Empoli notes in his new book, is that he is never seen reading a book. The experts understand nothing, and he scorns them. In “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” one ...

Last month, da Empoli, who is an Italian Swiss essayist, followed it up with a nonfiction book, “The Hour of the Predator,” ...

A RUSSIAN TV star and real-life cop has been killed fighting against the Ukrainians at the frontline. Boris Polovinkin, who ...