Russian leader Vladimir Putin told the newly convened State Duma that Russia will not beg for handouts as economic deficit concerns mount.

This conversation between AEI’s Dr. Leon Aron and German magazine Stern first appeared in German at Stern.de. The translation below is provided by Dr. Aron’s team at AEI. For the past two months, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Putin has already demonstrated that he is prepared to sacrifice extraordinary numbers of Russian soldiers to maintain his ...

The broad consensus among Russia-watchers is that the country is facing a prolonged bout of stagflation. Growth this year is unlikely to exceed 1%, and inflation is still stuck at 6% (or more).

India, June 29 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare public concession on Sunday, acknowledging that his country is experiencing fuel shortages and queues at petrol stations across its ...

The Kremlin's war machine is short on money and fuel as Ukrainian drones wreak havoc on Russian supply lines. More than four years after Vladimir Putin failed to seize all of Ukraine in a full-scale ...

“War is a continuation of politics by other means.” — Carl von Clausewitz, On War Politics can continue by other means aside from direct kinetic war. Proxy wars and sanctions are just among the few ...

IT seems a lot longer than five years since the world was living through the terror of the Covid pandemic’s final lockdown.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special military operation in Ukraine was supposed to succeed within a week or two. It has now dragged on for 1,659 days, and the Russian machine only has so much ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special military operation in Ukraine was supposed to succeed within a week or two. It has now dragged on for 1,659 days, and the Russian machine only has so much ...