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 ...

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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 view could be one reason why top European allies lined up with Zelenskyy on Nov. 21 in rejecting some of the key elements of the proposal, according to Bloomberg. The leaders of France, Germany ...

Analysts continue to debate what confluence of factors has shaped Vladimir Putin’s decision to order the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine. Some heavyweights in the world of policy ...

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 ...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who died last week at the age of 89, served as national security advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1977 until 1981. This evolving compilation of his observations and ...

This compilation of observations and policy ideas related to Russia by John Mearsheimer is part of Russia Matters’ “Competing Views” rubric, where we share prominent American thinkers’ takes on issues ...

This is a working draft and the author welcomes comments and suggestions. 1 Thirty years ago this month the Berlin Wall fell, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War. As former Eastern bloc countries ...

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 ...