This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “The Coming Election Mayhem.” ...

Now most people in Western countries - apart from a few silly populists - can see the sinister reality of the Russian ...

American comedian Tim Dillon knew the rules when he accepted an invitation to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which runs from Sept. 26 until Oct. 9 in Saudi Arabia, for a reported handsome fee ...

For Putin, the Zaporizhzhia plant serves as a valuable asset, one that can be traded to extract concessions from the West ...

President Vladimir V. Putin lashed out at “European elites” for “whipping up the hysteria” about the “Russian threat.” By Nataliya Vasilyeva President Vladimir V. Putin on Thursday said that Russia ...

James Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a retired US Navy admiral, former supreme allied commander of NATO, and vice chairman of global affairs at the Carlyle Group. As a retired admiral and ...

Vladimir Putin’s rise to power began in the chaos that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. From a little-known KGB officer to Russia’s most dominant leader, his story is one of calculated moves, ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends the Valdai Discussion Club annual international conference in Sochi, Russia, October 2, 2025. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS MOSCOW (Reuters) ...

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia will respond swiftly if it thinks Europe is provoking it and said that almost all of the U.S.-led NATO alliance was now ...

President Donald Trump — after repeatedly warning the Kremlin that his patience was wearing thin over its continuing invasion of Ukraine — has begun to match words with action. As Moscow continues to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on Thursday, calling last month’s shooting in Utah a “disgusting atrocity.” “You know, this ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denounced the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk as a “disgusting atrocity,” claiming the public killing has exposed a “deep rift” in America.