On Dec. 6, 2024, Russia Matters Editor Ivan Arreguín-Toft interviewed former Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, on ...

Waltz is a well-known quantity at the top of the Republican establishment. Once a Green Beret, he served as a defense policy ...

Assad’s Syria is not the first military-political ally Russia is in the process of losing since becoming preoccupied with ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. and European governments halted all scientific cooperation between federal scientists and their Russian counterparts. Most universities followed suit, abandoning ...

“Amid all the uncertainty that Trump 2.0 will bring, the last thing that Putin and Xi are worried about is Washington’s ability to orchestrate a real split between their countries, despite Trump’s ...

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In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a bloody escalation of a conflict that had begun eight years earlier. What drove Vladimir Putin to launch Europe’s largest land war since World War II?

Areas of expertise include: Russia; Eurasia; post-Soviet Eurasia; Belarus; foreign policy of authoritarian regimes; Russian foreign policy; European democracy and regional security; human rights.

Right now, the instinct in Washington is to lump Iran and Russia together, treating them as some sort of durable axis that threatens American interests. But given the two countries’ many differences, ...