For too long, we in the West have underestimated Putin’s global ideological vision as an animating force for his foreign-policy agenda. The tragic consequence is that today Putinism is advancing ...

In 1989, the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan after a ten-year losing battle with the Mujahedeen. Two years later, in ...

You're next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

Why it is unlikely that a few baubles will attract Putin to adopt his strategy to befriend Russia to isolate China COMMENT | VIJAY PRASHAD | U.S. President Donald Trump called Russian President ...

In November 1986, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev decided to withdraw all Soviet combat troops from Afghanistan by the ... succeeded by Boris Yeltsin. In 1999, Vladimir Putin replaced Mr. Yeltsin.

NATO's early 1990s push to involve itself in humanitarian interventionism gave Vladimir Putin the excuse he wanted to attack Ukraine.

The end goal: force Ukraine to the negotiation table with no security guarantees included in a “deal” with Vladimir Putin. Four things will come out of an emboldened Russia now: more air raids on ...

Donald Trump's interest in rapprochement with Russia and his annoyance with Ukraine, embodied by last week's Oval Office ...

Since taking office after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin on December 31 ... the US in going after Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Officials in NATO countries then did not quibble ...