List of Vladimir Putin articles
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Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting with foreign investors in Russia. Putin’s Pit Bull Is Making a Power Play
As hard-liners shuffle for power amid a failing war, Russia’s military could turn even more aggressive.
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A Ukrainian national flag waves while smoke rises after Russian attacks hit a fuel storage facility in the city of Kalynivka, Ukraine, on March 25. The Invasion That Changed Everything
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 stunned the world and upended global politics.
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Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin, charged with "discrediting" the Russian army fighting in Ukraine, flashes a victory sign inside a defendant's box at the Meshansky district court in Moscow on Dec. 9. A Russian Dissident Is Sentenced in Moscow
Ilya Yashin’s is the most significant political trial in Russia since Alexey Navalny’s imprisonment in 2021.
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A pedestrian walks past a vandalized mural depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Belgrade on June 2. Sanctions on Russia Are Working. Here’s Why.
The Kremlin’s ability to wage war is already constrained, but the worst is yet to come.
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A police officer is reflected in the logo of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) at the OSCE headquarters in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna on Feb. 21. Will Russia Kill the OSCE?
Moscow is derailing peacekeeping missions and disrupting the budget process, threatening an organization that is vital to European security.
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Vladimir Putin addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 28, 2015 in New York City. The U.N. (as We Know It) Won’t Survive Russia’s War in Ukraine
The institutions designed to secure global order clearly aren't up to the task. What will take their place?
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Police detain protesters in Moscow. Why Isn’t Russia a Democracy?
The country wasn’t preordained to despotism or a clash with the West.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the start of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, on May 15, 2017. How Putin and Xi Are Trying to Break Global Human Rights
In their own way, Russia and China are threatening the world’s system for defending human rights.
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Students at a Brooklyn, New York, school take part in a duck and cover drill in preparation for a nuclear attack in 1962. The Dangers of ‘Catastrophic Consequences’
Sixty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Biden is re-creating nuclear deterrence on the fly.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the Kremlin in Moscow Why Putin’s Nuclear Gambit Is a Huge Mistake
The only thing more terrifying than Russian nuclear use is letting fear drive Western strategy.
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Police officers detain a woman during a protest against military mobilization in Moscow on Sept. 21. As War Hits the Homefront, Russia’s Defeat Inches Closer
Battlefield losses, military corruption, and a disastrous mobilization drive have broken the social contract.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a rally in central Moscow on Sept. 30. Can Putin’s Center Hold?
The elites used to need the Russian president. Now he needs them.
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Firefighters conduct work on a building destroyed by Russian attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine. Why Putin Is Escalating Aerial Bombings in Ukraine
Former CIA analyst Andrea Kendall-Taylor on the hard-liners who have increasing sway over Moscow’s choices.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with the president of the Armenian parliament, Alen Simonyan, at the National Assembly in Yerevan, Armenia, on Sept. 18. The Thaw on Russia’s Periphery Has Already Started
All around a war-weakened Russia, there is a giant geopolitical sucking sound.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends a gala event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 2. Kremlin Talking Points Are Back in the U.S. Debate
Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and midterm candidates are peddling Russian propaganda on Ukraine.
