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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday “urged Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine” in a 50-minute call with his Russian cou

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday “urged Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine” in a 50-minute call with his Russian cou

Shortly after becoming president, Joe Biden promised to lead a course in U.S. foreign policy that "would better reconcile our democratic values ​​with

In 1961, the KGB confiscated the manuscript of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. The novel was, according to Grossman and other Russian commentators, “arrested.” Even in the midst of the political thaw under Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, such a portrait of life under totalitarianism wouldn’t be allowed into print, even with Joseph Stalin dead for eight years. In their search for a usable past, something not to be rejected in disgust, not to shudder over, but to cherish and be inspired by, they were awed by the brave and nearly lost attempts of their fathers and mothers to imagine a...

An invasion of Estonia and the other two Baltic States by Vladimir Putin's Russia would fit the pattern of much of his lengthy presidency, a recent opinion piece by US politics portal Politico argues, and if successful would pay dividends in terms of support, just as those into Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014, did.