Mark Edele receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Four years ago, Vladimir Putin escalated his war against Ukraine to an all-out assault. The plan was for a quick and lively campaign ...

India’s imports of Russian oil are expected to drop by about half from already weaker recent levels, according to people with direct knowledge of the purchases, after US President Donald Trump issued ...

Russian figure skater Adeliia Petrosian has landed triple axels and quadruple jumps in competition and she just might land on the medal podium at the 2026 Olympics. At which point, one of the more ...

Alexander Ovechkin barely finished his jubilant belly slide across the ice last April before the Russian propaganda machine started revving up. The Kremlin seized the chance to portray a milestone ...

Fruit baskets get a bad rap, in part because of how annoying it is to pick off little pieces of packaging paper and ribbon from an otherwise perfect pear, but also because they usually include some ...

When the 2026 Winter Olympics kick off in Milan Cortina in February, Russia will once again be on the outside looking in. Long considered a formidable powerhouse for figure skating, ice hockey and ...

In May 2025, when US and Ukraine discussed the “minerals-for-aid” deal, Moscow pointed out the obvious: Russia’s rare-earth reserves dwarf Ukraine’s. By December, elements of that argument had crept ...

A federal judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from enforcing large parts of an executive order that seeks to overhaul the federal elections process, finding that the federal government ...

Even as President Donald Trump insists Russia has the upper hand in its war against Ukraine, economists say the country’s position is weaker than ever because the Kremlin has burned through most of ...

Roblox is exploring changes that it could make so that it can return to Russia after being banned. Reuters reports – via the Interfax news agency – that Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor has said ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about investor immigration and international law issues. Europe might have just eliminated one of the Kremlin’s most ...

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