Even before the U.S. sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, President Donald Trump was insisting that the Russian "economy is going to collapse.” The Oct. 22 announcement ...

Russia: +28,638 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 ...

Humanitarian impact of the Ukraine conflict: “Russia Tried to Cut Ukraine’s Lights. Now It’s Aiming for the Heat,” Constant Méheut and Olha Konovalova, New York Times, 11.15.25. Méheut and Konovalova ...

This article is part of a series on the impact of U.S. and Russian military complexes on the bilateral relationship. "Influence of the Defense Industry on US National Security Strategy" by Matt Korda ...

While the conflict in eastern Ukraine initially served as a magnet for international fighters of various stripes, the situation began to change around the end of 2014. The initial chaos of the war in ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin stepped down after a second term in 2008, making way for his protégé Dmitry Medvedev to have a stint in the Kremlin, speculation about which man was genuinely in ...

Earlier this year, sanctioned tycoon Oleg Deripaska told the Financial Times that the Russian state holds 70 percent of the country’s economy in its hands; this figure has been bandied about since at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent developments in Ukraine suggest Russian military commanders have exhausted their ability to effectively respond to a Ukrainian escalation in fighting, which is expected any day. An influx of ...

It has been eight weeks since the Russian government launched a multi-pronged offensive into Ukraine. In the north, the Russian army laid siege to Kyiv for almost a month. The operation rapidly ...

"Strategic Deterrence measures are taken continuously by one party, in peaceful and in military times, and not only to prevent acts of force inflicting or able to inflict strategic-level damage on one ...