I read a lot of history books and often find myself wondering about how current events will be interpreted by future ...

The word ‘oligarch’ returned to the media lexicon at Donald Trump’s inauguration this week when some of the world’s biggest technology entrepreneurs took their seats while US cabinet ministers were ...

Mihail Khodorkovski, one of the most well-known opponents of the Putin regime, has launched harsh criticism of Mircea Geoana’s candidacy for the presidency of Romania, emphasizing his team’s ties to ...

The ultra-conservative, anti-Western, openly pro-Russian, and anti-liberal Conservative Movement / Alt-Info is spinning the new project, which uses particularly violent and dehumanizing language ...

At least twenty Russian official covers - spies in diplomatic services - were still active in The Netherlands at the beginning of this year. Seventeen of them were deported in March. Unlike ordinary ...

A detailed documentary on Mikhail Khodorkovsky proves slightly unsatisfying. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

The Foreign Secretary drew battle lines with the Kremlin as he pointed the finger directly at Vladimir Putin for the Salisbury poisoning, saying it is "overwhelmingly likely" he ordered the nerve ...

On Wednesday a court in The Hague overturned an arbitration ruling which stated that Russia had to pay 50 billion dollars in damages to the former owners of collapsed Yukos Oil Co., Bloomberg reports.

February 27, 2016, marks the first anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia's leading opposition politicians. The assassination was met with outrage and anger in Russia and around the ...

The decision of some German, Austrian, British, Dutch and French energy companies to do business with Gazprom must be severely lamented. Not only is it environmentally and economically wrong, it’s a ...

On September 1, 2004, hundreds of children returned to school in Beslan like thousands of others across Russia. Traditionally, the start of the new term is a cause of celebration, a family day out.