Russian bombs tore into Ukrainian cities on Tuesday afternoon and evening, killing more than 20 people and wounding dozens of others. The deadly strikes drew a furious response from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who said they showed the cynicism behind Russia’s announcement of a cease-fire timed to Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9….
A drone slammed into a high-rise apartment building a few miles from the Kremlin on Monday, a rare attack on Moscow that came as Ukraine has expanded its long-range strikes inside Russia. The breach of air defenses in the Russian capital occurred five days before the annual Victory Day parade, a major event on Red…
President Trump is right to demand that Europe spend more on its own defense. But the Trump administration’s announcement on Friday that it would pull 5,000 U.S. troops out of Germany risks weakening one of America’s best strategic investments: a military presence that deters Russia and keeps Europe’s old rivalries from becoming America’s problem again….
When Yeltsin appointed Putin prime minister, scarcely one in four Russians had heard of him. “It was easy to project any and all hopes and interests onto him,” Fishman writes. Some, including Nemtsov, initially believed that he would stay the course, toward Europe and the West. Many more viewed Putin through the prism of national…
A missing Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, a co-director and the star of the documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” turned up on Friday after it failed to arrive with passengers’ checked luggage aboard a Lufthansa flight from New York to Frankfurt a day earlier, the airline said. Mr. Talankin, whose film won the Academy…
Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin, the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, is looking for his Oscar. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The trophy has been lost after the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at New York’s JFK airport confiscated his award. In a social media post, Talankin’s co-director David Borenstein made a plea to help…
Ruslan Gabbasov knew his activism had made him a target of Russia’s security services, so when he found an Apple AirTag tracker hidden under the hood of his car last spring, he understood it meant trouble. Just not how much trouble. The discovery of the tracking device triggered a sprawling, yearlong investigation by the authorities…
In a lengthy phone call on Wednesday, President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia agreed that there should be a brief cease-fire in Ukraine in the coming days, according to both Mr. Trump and a top adviser to Mr. Putin. The cease-fire would coincide with the May 9 Russian holiday marking the end…
President Vladimir V. Putin and his security services kept a lid on public dissent even as he invaded a neighboring country, sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers to their deaths and drastically raised taxes to pay for it all. Then, they moved to throttle popular apps and intermittently cut off the internet. Suddenly, many Russians…
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, arrived in Russia on Monday for talks with President Vladimir V. Putin on Iran’s war with the United States, as negotiations between Tehran and Washington to end the conflict appear to have stalled. But his visit underscored the tricky position Russia finds itself in as it tries to balance its…
