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His new play “Patriots,” now on Broadway, follows Putin’s rise to power and the Russian oligarchs who mistakenly thought he’d be their puppet.

Marianna Budanova, whose husband is the director of military intelligence, is recovering in a hospital, the officials said. Her husband has long accused Russia of trying to kill him.

The convicted arms trafficker Viktor A. Bout hasn’t much flair for retail politicking, but his celebrity may compensate for that in regional elections.

As an arms trafficker, he operated in some of the world’s most dangerous places, becoming one of the world’s most

The mutiny turned out to be nothing but a short-lived moment of humiliation for Russia’s leader, catapulted by Western journalistic cliches that mistakenly examine Russia’s strictly personalist dictatorship through the black-and-white lens of Western liberal conceptions of dictatorship.

Rest of World News: When President Vladimir Putin of Russia let mercenary tycoon Yevgeny V. Prigozhin escape seemingly unscathed after launching a mutiny in June, critics

In Putin’s Russia, fates can quickly change in a system in which existential affronts to the leader are neither forgiven nor forgotten.

The fate of Yevgeny V. Prigozhin is a reminder of all those who have paid a heavy price for standing up to President Vladimir V. Putin, and of how quickly people can fall from his favor.

A new dramatization of the 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko shows the former spy, played by David Tennant, helping the police in his final hours.

The clamor over the assassination of Daria Dugina highlights the prominence of her fellow pro-war Russian ultranationalists.