The incident of the failed assasination attempt turned Alexei Navalny into an international hero. If the Kremlin’s goal is to silence the opposition, it seems like putting Navalny in jail has exacerbated the problem: Thousands of protesters currently demand for his release, threatening Putin’s power and reminding him that, someday, he might have to face Navalny in the parliament elections.
Well-produced television can make almost any profession look enticing, but it takes a stellar cast and a few eye-catching outfits to sell the game of chess as glamorous and alluring material. With all...
Robert Zelnick, an accomplished journalist and retired journalism professor at Boston University, died Monday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the nascent Russian Republic isolated from the rest of Europe and vulnerable to potential Western incursions. The loss of the Baltic States, Belarus and...
Did Russia affect our election? Did the Trump campaign or Donald Trump himself collude with Russia? Did that golden shower thing really happen? The answers are, in order: it’s complicated, it’s complicated...
In 1883, the 47th U.S. Congress enacted the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. This act set in stone a rule that positions of government should not be handed out to those who support a particular political...
For Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 62nd birthday Tuesday, supporters in Moscow gifted him with an art exhibit, titled “The 12 Labors of Putin,” depicting him as the mythical hero, Hercules. We...
