Reading Time: 3 minutes Historians are divided on Josef Stalin’s intent in the Ukraine that resulted in millions of deaths. Anne Applebaum’s new book has revived the dispute
Tag: Russia
West complicit in North Korea’s 21st-century slave trade
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hundreds of thousands of World Cup soccer fans will buy tickets to sit in stadiums being built in Russia and Qatar with slave labour
‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
Reading Time: 3 minutes While it might be silly to argue the Berlin Wall came down because of Ronald Reagan, he demonstrated unusual prescience about the Soviet Union’s fragility
Putin’s risky Syrian gambit is not serving him well
Reading Time: 7 minutes While former KGB agent Vladimir Putin no longer reports to anyone, that doesn’t mean a demotion might not be in his future
Looking for lines in the sand in Syria
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s troubling is the abrupt manner in which the Trump administration reversed policy on Syria. Assad’s barbarism is not exactly news
Can Russia and the United States be allies?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Expanded co-operation with the West and an increase in Russia’s role in combatting jihadism would come at a steep price — for both sides
The rise and fall of the Romanovs
Reading Time: 3 minutes 100 years ago this month, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated. In July of the following year, he and his immediate family were bayoneted, shot and mutilated
Putin’s brazen bluffs obscure increasing weakness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Russia is banking that a new U.S. administration will give it a way out of the hole it has dug for itself
NATO urgently needs to redefine its mission
Reading Time: 4 minutes NATO needs to redefine the kinds of threats it is designed to oppose to reflect the current tactics in the Kremlin’s playbook
Emboldened Putin rolling over feckless Obama
Reading Time: 4 minutes To the KGB-schooled “hard men” of the Kremlin, dealing with the Obama administration is akin to taking candy from a baby