About a decade ago, the war in Syria helped to forge an unlikely partnership in the Middle East between Turkey and Russia. It ...

Even Russia’s leading warmonger has run out of ways to justify the Ukraine invasion.

While some powerful Russians shun the West, others want to restore ties and embrace friendly Westerners. President Vladimir V ...

The Cold War could not have ended, and the Soviet Union could not have collapsed, without literary dissidents. Nobel laureates such as Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Boris Pasternak ...

Apple TV's "Star City" takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of "For All Mankind," the show is told from the Soviet perspective ...

The Eurasian steppe is famous for being the wellspring and thoroughfare of conquerors. It was from there that the Huns ...

But Dmitriev is more than just a gifted Kremlin illusionist. He is living proof that if you squint hard enough, you can blur ...

On the agenda at this week’s Russia-China summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping is the long-delayed Power of Siberia 2 (POS-2) project, a proposed 2,600km (1,616-mile) natural gas ...

Hot on the heels of Donald Trump's visit, Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping. DW explores how China's trade and financial support is helping keep Russia's ...

Blending made-up characters and real life big shots, Assayas and Carrère offer a bouncy history of how Russia went from a Soviet dictatorship to a new kind of czarism. The wizard of the title isn't ...

Malorossiya (“Little Russia” — a geographical and historical term used to describe Ukraine) is interpreted as “small Russia,” something secondary, whereas Velikorossiya (“Great Russia”) is seen as the ...

Vladimir Putin’s inner circle “secretly hate” him and the dictator will be toppled in a “palace coup” within the next year. This comes from lawyer Ilya Remeslo - earlier a staunch backer of the ...