Russia’s tiny advances in 2025 sold Putin on inevitable victory in Ukraine,” Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 11.25.25. Dixon reports, “‘Russia’s slow grind in 2025 has gained it less than an additional ...

As of early October 2025, Ukrainian drone strikes were reported to have forced nearly 40% of Russia's oil refining capacity offline, with at least 70% of shutdowns directly linked to these strikes, ...

Despite his mastery of reductionist flattery and "unlimited devotion" to Putin, the speaker of the State Duma likely isn't a member of the Russian president's inner-most circle. Still, he may have a ...

Amid U.S. pressure to accept a 28-point peace plan 2 that would require ceding territory, reducing Ukraine’s military, and abandoning NATO ambitions, Zelenskyy declared Ukraine is facing “one of the ...

We asked several of America’s leading Russia experts to comment on what to expect from Russia’s relations with the West, China and post-Soviet Eurasia during Vladimir Putin’s new term, and how long ...