Russian leader Vladimir Putin told the newly convened State Duma that Russia will not beg for handouts as economic deficit concerns mount.

This conversation between AEI’s Dr. Leon Aron and German magazine Stern first appeared in German at Stern.de. The translation below is provided by Dr. Aron’s team at AEI. For the past two months, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Putin has already demonstrated that he is prepared to sacrifice extraordinary numbers of Russian soldiers to maintain his ...

India, June 29 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare public concession on Sunday, acknowledging that his country is experiencing fuel shortages and queues at petrol stations across its ...

“War is a continuation of politics by other means.” — Carl von Clausewitz, On War Politics can continue by other means aside from direct kinetic war. Proxy wars and sanctions are just among the few ...

Opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who criticized Russia’s war in Ukraine and tried to challenge President Vladimir Putin in the 2024 election, said Monday he has left Russia, a move that follows ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special military operation in Ukraine was supposed to succeed within a week or two. It has now dragged on for 1,659 days, and the Russian machine only has so much ...

Even with the Russian economy suffering from low growth, high inflation, and relentless Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on energy infrastructure, President Vladimir Putin has thrown fiscal caution ...