Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1997, soon after being elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences, he was invited to participate in a roundtable ...

In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater in Turin, Italy, killing 74 people, many of them teenagers trampled to ...

For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was ...

Having practiced for years in both family medicine and emergency room settings, I continue to be surprised by the degree of ...

In his most powerful novel, Russia’s greatest 19th century novelist wrestles with the most difficult moral problem faced by ...

In the final part of Chasing Einstein, we look at what happened after the mystery man was revealed and his explanation for ...

The dramatic beginning wherein Navalny describes, in a rather Rashomon-esque style, how he was poisoned by a nerve agent as ...

Ukrainians aren’t shocked—they have a lot of experience in the betrayal business. The mood here is determined—but grim. And ...

The memory of Soviet-era famines, mass killings and other traumas makes Ukraine determined not to return to Russian rule ...