In recent decades, the US and Europe have consistently dismissed Russia’s security concerns relating to its former territories, and portrayed its resistance to NATO’s eastward expansion as paranoid revanchism. Until the West changes its approach, the cycle of crises will continue, with escalating risks.

The one-sided indictments of Moscow’s behavior invariably ignore numerous missteps that took place, beginning with President Clinton.

If there are no prompt responses to Russia’s legitimate security concerns, then the next phase entails a more robust military-technical realm

Russia hoax booster and January 6 hawk Adam Schiff doesn’t let reality get in the way of his political goals.

Tales of Russia’s demise have circulated with remarkable consistency since the fall of the Soviet Union on Dec. 25 exactly three decades ago. Having fallen from its superpower pedestal, the Soviet Union’s successor state was routinely characterized as a “declining power,” a “has-been power” and a “downshift power.”

The Iron Curtain fell 30 years ago, but the last acts are yet to be written, as the very struggle against communism changed the US forever.

Thanks to recent indictments and ongoing lawsuits about an alleged Trump computer back channel to Moscow, we can now see just how journalists got played—and who played them.

The United States grew “arrogant and self-confident” after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the expansion of the NATO military alliance, former leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Friday.

Promises that the bloc wouldn’t expand appear to have been ignored in Washington’s quest for influence in Europe.

If the legendary scientist, peace and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov was alive today, he would have celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year and we can imagine that he would be more than a little dismayed by the state of today’s world.