While Putin is all but guaranteed to win, war fatigue, electoral engineering and extreme risk-aversion suggest that the Kremlin is anxious to get these elections over and done with.

With oil revenues recovering, Putin's key domestic challenge will be grappling with a stark labour shortage, aggravated by last year's military mobilisation and the emigration of hundreds of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said he would run again for president in March, seeking to maintain his hold on power until at least 2030.

Growing domestic discontent is not Putin‘s only challenge. He is also facing increasing international pressure, even from his most ardent supporters. Last week, at a summit meeting with Russia ...

Knowing the intentions of any autocratic leader is difficult, but President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who began his career as a K.G.B. officer, poses a particular challenge.

Outlook Invading Ukraine backfired on Putin once. Why is he threatening to do it again? Russia has only pushed its neighbor to embrace the West more — exactly what Putin says he’s afraid of ...

Ukraine’s painstaking effort to build a democracy is an inspirational clarion call to Mr. Putin’s own domestic opponents, increasingly under siege from the Kremlin’s Orwellian police-state ...

Navalny is a special challenge for the Russian leadership, the Putin leadership, because Navalny is not of the sort of liberal elite of the standard Russian politicians and oppositions.

Vladimir Putin, whose regime’s legitimacy is derived from his unparalleled popular support, is facing the biggest political challenge since his last return to the Kremlin in 2011-2012.

The crisis that could take down Putin’s presidency Domestic politics — not tension with the U.S. — poses the biggest threat to Putin.

What is certain is that Russia’s greatest challenges are domestic – and that Putin will spend 2016 desperately hoping that the price of oil starts to climb.

Russian public opinion is far more likely in the near term to shape the behavior of the Kremlin than the new, tough sanctions against Russia—but not in ways that most would expect. To be sure ...