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Russia celebrates 78th Victory Day on May 9 when former USSR defeated Nazi forces in World War II

Just 14 months into Russia's war on Ukraine, Moscow's military has become so degraded that it could take up to 10 years for its forces to recover.

Mikhail Gurevich, a columnist for the Russian Daily Kommersant, believes that the Western understanding of the arrest of The Wall Street Journal's Russia correspondent Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges as a means of providing Russia with someone to trade for a Russian incarcerated in the U.S. is reasonable but mistaken. Gershkovich's arrest was intended to serve as a

Columnist For Russian Daily 'Kommersant' Mikhail Gurevich wrote that the arrest of WSJ correspondent Gershkovich is a warning to Western journalists not to leave Moscow.

Chinese leader, on his first visit since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is staying at a hotel featuring a replica of Beijing’s Forbidden City

In Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion has met setback after setback. But its effect at home has been very different.

Many of the activist groups and rights organizations that sprang up in the first 30 years of post-Soviet Russia have met an abrupt end, while nationalist groups have taken center stage

Individual freedom and human rights have declined sharply in Russiaover the past decade and at an accelerated pace under PresidentVladimir Putin. The United States should attempt to stem thisdecline by promoting a diverse freedom agenda, strengthening publicdiplomacy, expanding U.S.-Russia student exchanges, and bolsteringdemocracy-promotion efforts in Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, andAzerbaijan.

The self-styled Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) on Tuesday (12 July) opened an embassy in Russia, one of only two countries to recognise the breakaway statelet in eastern Ukraine, and defended its right to impose capital punishment. DPR Foreign Minister Natalia Nikonorova said the territorys use of the death penalty - which it has handed down […]

(This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine.)