As of early October 2025, Ukrainian drone strikes were reported to have forced nearly 40% of Russia's oil refining capacity offline, with at least 70% of shutdowns directly linked to these strikes, ...

Russia: +28,604 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the size of the U.S. state of Iowa). Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea ...

Russia: +28,565 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the size of the U.S. state of Iowa). Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea ...

On leave from the Kyiv School of Economics, where he has been helping to establish a new national security studies program, Brig. Gen. (ret.) Kevin Ryan sat down with the Belfer Center’s Russia ...

Join us for the inaugural event of the new series, Russia and Its Neighbors: In Search of a New Paradigm — In Conversation with Dr. Yevgenia Albats, featuring Harvard economist Oleg Itskhoki. Born in ...

Putin’s war has prompted a deep analysis and reevaluation of the forces driving this deadly confrontation. At the Vanishing Point in History brings together renowned humanities scholars and prominent ...

The Arctic is rapidly moving to the center of global politics. Melting ice is opening new shipping lanes and granting access to vast, untapped natural resources. Russia has expanded its military ...