A plurality in Russia say it is moving in the wrong direction, and support for President Vladimir V. Putin has dropped. What will that mean for Russian politics?
Strobe Talbott, a former deputy secretary of state, takes issue with the president’s withdrawal from a nuclear weapons treaty.
Europeans pushed back against the Trump administration’s unilateralism at the Munich Security Conference, signaling a shift that is likely to be exploited by Russia and China.
The stunt came two weeks before the anniversary of a nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England.
In this drama, the stakes are enormous.
Michael Calvey, founder of one of the biggest and oldest investment firms in Russia, was detained on Friday along with five other.
Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1960s movie, made with a virtually unlimited budget and the backing of the Soviet state, comes to Lincoln Center this weekend.
Some American allies are anxious about mixed signals and ad hoc arrangements for the gathering — the first of Middle East states, Europe and the United States in years.
In a rare show of accord, Berlin promised to help build a port for importing liquefied natural gas. Washington is toning down its opposition to a pipeline from Russia.
The former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi describes the 2016 exchange with the Russian president in his new book.
The “Worldwide Threat Assessment” requires intelligence chiefs to explain publicly what worries them — made more difficult when a finding goes against a president’s desired outcomes.
His presidency hasn’t been the boon for gun-rights supporters that they might have hoped.
Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor said that a suspected Russian intelligence officer, with a reported link to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, had visited Bulgaria before another high-profile poisoning.
Bears on the Novaya Zemlya island chain halted a seasonal migration to congregate near a military outpost, in a possible omen of climate change.
From Tokyo to Zurich, readers told us how New York’s subway compares with the public transportation in their cities (spoiler alert: not well).
Will there be a dangerous new era of unchecked nuclear weapons development?
Since 1987, a treaty with Moscow to limit midrange missile deployment has boosted trans-Atlantic security. But Russia has been cheating, and is fielding missiles banned by the compact.
Prosecutors for the special counsel suggested plans discussed by Trump associates to address Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and the resulting sanctions remained at the center of the investigation.
It’s for the good of the country. Especially our kids.
The north magnetic pole is moving eastward at an accelerating pace. Is doomsday nigh?
Boris Yeltsin is widely held responsible in Russia for destroying the Soviet Union. A new museum seeks to counter that image — and subtly rebuke President Vladimir V. Putin.
The Danish man, Dennis Christensen, was convicted of organizing a banned extremist group. Russia effectively outlawed the Christian denomination in 2017.
Political analysts said the accession of the country now known as North Macedonia to NATO, which could be complete by year’s end, was a setback for Russia.
The most significant contact between insurgents and Afghan politicians was informal at best as the government was absent, but the Taliban offered some clarity on their positions.
The claim comes after the U.S. withdrew from a weapons control treaty, but some experts say it may be a bluff, because Moscow cannot afford an arms race.
A new five-year policy offers $100 billion for infrastructure to stimulate growth — a shift from a focus on consumer spending.
Denis Voronenkov won incredible power and wealth playing by Russia’s rules. But his murder wasn’t necessarily what it looked like.
The Taliban broached their views on women’s rights at a meeting between Afghan officials, led by former President Hamid Karzai, and with the current president, Ashraf Ghani, conspicuously absent.
With the formerly prosperous nation now plunged into crisis, President Nicolás Maduro and the opposition leader Juan Guaidó are vying for backing at home and abroad to support their claims.
Scientists accelerated the update of a model of Earth’s fluctuating magnetic field, which is needed to keep navigational systems functioning. Many wondered what’s happening inside the planet’s core.
I met Vladimir Putin and trusted him in the early 1990s, when he was deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. Now that he’s Russia’s president, he’s different. He’s no friend of democracy.
Russia will no longer observe the 1987 nuclear pact, which the Trump administration suspended on Friday. China urged both powers to observe the agreement, but showed no interest in joining it.
President Ashraf Ghani’s Afghan government has been shut out of the insurgents’ peace talks with the United States, and the meeting in Russia could undermine him further.
The United States is withdrawing from a landmark arms-control pact with Russia. So what is the treaty and the impact of its demise?
The good news is that the downward spiral can be stopped.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged a risk of a new arms race after the suspension of a 1987 treaty banning the deployment of intermediate-range missiles.
The president addressed the Russia investigation, Roger Stone, the border wall, his dispute with the intelligence agencies and his competition in 2020.
Facebook and Twitter said on Thursday that disinformation on their platforms now comes from more domestic and foreign sources — and not just Russia.
It is too far away and intervention would be too costly. Moscow will probably content itself with hurling insults at the U.S. from the sidelines.
Trump isn’t entirely wrong about the dangers America faces.
Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about the Treasury secretary after a sanctions-lifting agreement benefited a big Republican donor.
A chaotic administration’s unexpectedly coherent grand strategy.
North Korea is “unlikely to give up” its nuclear stockpiles and Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, an intelligence assessment says, challenging the president’s assertions.
North Korea is “unlikely to give up” its nuclear stockpiles and Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, an intelligence assessment says, challenging the president’s assertions.
North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear stockpiles and Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, an intelligence assessment says, challenging the president’s assertions.
The Tretyakov Gallery, one of Russia’s most important art museums, said it would revisit security arrangements after the brazen theft.
The Balkans has once again become a playground for great power politics.
The House voted overwhelmingly to block President Trump’s threat to quit the Atlantic alliance. The Senate should promptly follow suit.
An Al Qaeda-linked group now dominates Idlib, which could hasten an assault on the province by the Syrian government and its Russian allies.
Could the Trump campaign really not have known that in dealing with WikiLeaks it was dealing with Russia?
The indictment of Natalia V. Veselnitskaya raises a question: Why would prosecutors pursue a case in which there is little likelihood of getting the defendant to the United States?
Files and messages on Russia’s war in Ukraine, the business dealings of oligarchs and other issues were published online by a group called Distributed Denial of Secrets.
Viktor Yanukovych fled the country after being ousted in 2014. The case focused on his effort to hold onto power by asking Vladimir Putin to intervene militarily on his behalf.
Moscow accused the United States of promoting regime change in Venezuela, a day after the Trump administration recognized the opposition leader as president.
The declaration of fealty to Mr. Maduro appeared to be a setback for the Venezuelan opposition leader, who has been backed by a number of countries including the United States.
The declaration of loyalty to President Nicolás Maduro was a setback for the Venezuelan opposition leader, who has been backed by several countries, including the United States.
American officials, who say the weapon violates the 1987 I.N.F. treaty, argued that inspection of a stationary missile would not prove compliance.
The referendum to leave the European Union was won on a promise to “take back control.” On the Continent, we wonder whether the British have lost not only control but their minds.
Tax breaks, land deals and cheap energy have spurred cryptocurrency mining in Georgia, which wants to be a digital data leader.
Traditional adversaries are likely to take advantage of the weakening international order to increase their influence, according to a new intelligence strategy.
When the Ukrainian Orthodox Church broke from Russia’s, it dealt a blow to President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to portray his country as one people with a single identity.
Under pressure from nationalists, the Russian president backed off previous hints that he was ready to end a 73-year tussle over the Kurile Islands.
Under pressure from nationalists, the Russian president backed off previous hints that he was ready to end a 73-year tussle over the Kurile Islands.
Anastasia Vashukevich, who filmed herself on the yacht of one of Russia’s richest oligarchs, was arrested in Moscow after being deported from Thailand.
Paul N. Whelan, a former United States Marine, was arrested after being given a thumb drive of state secrets, believing it to contain vacation pictures, his lawyer says.
It’s about curtailing inequality and saving democracy.
The two men named as suspects in the attempted killing of a former spy in Britain were among those placed on a sanctions list.
The president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said his own widely reported statements about when talks about the skyscraper project might have ended were only “hypothetical.”
President Trump likes to say he has been tougher on Russia than his predecessors. But he has frequently contradicted his own administration’s anti-Russian positions.
The Trump administration’s agreement to lift sanctions on the empire of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska would allow him to pay off substantial debt.
Two tankers performing a fuel transfer near the contested Kerch Strait caught fire, leading to the deaths. The strait is a sticking point in relations between Russia and Ukraine.
President Trump says that he has done more to counter Russian aggression than other recent presidents. But, officials say, Mr. Trump has gone along with such actions reluctantly or under pressure.