Russia: +28,734 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to half the size of the U.S. state of Iowa). Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia presently controls, including Crimea ...

Earlier this summer, Russia's statistical agency Rosstat quietly stopped publishing monthly demographic data—a move that should alarm any Russia analyst who understands the relationship between ...

Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened secondary tariffs of 100% on any country trading with Russia if there is no deal to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days. This proposal ...

The latest of the Levada Center’s polls on Russians’ attitudes toward foreign countries reaffirms the proposition that whatever major foreign policy decision Vladimir Putin makes, most of his ...

This view could be one reason why top European allies lined up with Zelenskyy on Nov. 21 in rejecting some of the key elements of the proposal, according to Bloomberg. The leaders of France, Germany ...

The election of U.S. President Donald Trump changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine from “as long as it takes” to seeking a negotiated peace settlement. These negotiations will be driven by the battlefield ...

Russia: +27,124 square miles. 12% of Ukraine. (Area roughly equivalent to the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire combined). 1 Total area of all Ukrainian territory Russia ...

Military personnel losses: Estimates of the number of Russian servicemen killed or wounded or missing vary, but most recent estimates show casualties of 700,000 or more, for a daily rate of 670 ...

The past few months have seen a number of Russia watchers echo each other’s proclamations that the Russian economy is either already collapsing or close to crumbling. Motyl is not the only Russia ...

It's astounding but not unprecedented how quickly Bashar al-Assad’s regime has fallen. Just a week after capturing Aleppo, the opposition forces found themselves first at the gates of Damascus, and ...

If confirmed by the Senate, U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz, who has been picked by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as national security adviser, will play one of the lead roles in shaping America’s ...