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News and analysis about all things Russia, including special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, the war in Ukraine, and more.

A very bad year for press freedom

By Caroline Houck

Why Russia has kept a Wall Street Journal reporter in jail for a year — and counting

By Ellen Ioanes

ISIS-K, the group linked to Moscow’s terror attack, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

There’s a shadow fleet sneaking Russian oil around the world. It’s an ecological disaster waiting to happen.

By Joshua Keating

The battle for blame over a deadly terror attack in Moscow

By Joshua Keating

Putin’s reelection puts him in a class of Russia’s longest-ruling autocrats

By Ellen Ioanes

Caught between Trump and Putin, are European countries ready to go nuclear?

By Joshua Keating

Where does the fight for a free Russia go now?

By Ellen Ioanes

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

US officials are always talking about “deterring” Iran. What does that really mean?

By Joshua Keating

A war has never been fought in orbit. That may be about to change.

By Tim Fernholz

Welcome to the “neomedieval era”

By Joshua Keating

What happens in Ukraine if US aid disappears?

By Joshua Keating

Russia’s absurd claim that the LGBTQ community is extremist, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

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A harrowing film exposes the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Jen Kirby

How Armenia and Azerbaijan’s conflict could still destabilize the region

By Ellen Ioanes

The Wagner chief’s fate was decided when he crossed Putin

By Jen Kirby

Why so many countries want to join BRICS

By Jonathan Guyer

It’s time for a new atomic altruism

By Matthew Gentzel and Christian Ruhl

Wagner’s real money never came from diamonds and gold

By Ellen Ioanes

Prigozhin said he was just being a patriot. Do Russians agree?

By Jonathan Guyer

Aleksandr Lukashenko, the dictator who took credit for ending Wagner’s mutiny, explained

By Nicole Narea

Russia’s wild weekend and the Wagner group’s march to Moscow, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war

By Bryan Walsh

The potential fallout from drone attacks in Moscow

By Nicole Narea

What a viral video reveals about Russia’s struggles in Ukraine

By Zack Beauchamp

Can a 50-year-old treaty still keep the world safe from the changing threat of bioweapons?

By Jen Kirby

So what’s the deal with Ukraine’s spring offensive?

By Jen Kirby

America’s hypersonic arms race with China, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

The Wagner Group, Russia’s maybe-private army in Ukraine, explained

By Jen Kirby

Putin and Xi’s big Moscow meeting, briefly explained

By Li Zhou

The last US-Russia arms control treaty is in big trouble

By Jen Kirby

4 unanswered questions about the future of the Ukraine war

By Jen Kirby

How Ukraine could become America’s next forever war

By Jonathan Guyer

Biden and Putin’s dueling speeches show why the end of the Ukraine war is a long way off

By Jonathan Guyer

Russia’s emerging new offensive in Ukraine, explained by an expert

By Michael Bluhm

Why the earthquake caused a “perfect storm” of a crisis in Syria

By Ellen Ioanes

Are we in a new Cold War?

By Michael Bluhm

Putin’s so-called Christmas ceasefire, explained

By Jen Kirby

What to know about the $60 price cap, the plan to limit Russia’s oil revenues

By Jen Kirby

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