Stephen F. Cohen | The Nation

A book by the famous British historian was not published in Russia because the Moscow publisher discovered too many errors and misrepresentations—not, as Figes suggested, for political reasons.

The vilifying charges levelled at Russia's president by the American media could undermine rational U.S. policy-making.

Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the relationship features more elements of cold-war conflict than of stable cooperation.

Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.

I may have been delusional about my golf game, but not about Frank Beard's.

Obama’s celebrated “reset” of US-Russia relations is limited and unstable. A fundamental transformation requires bold leadership and a full rethinking of Washington’s triumphalist attitudes.

A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.

The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.

Overshadowed by the US disaster in Iraq, Moscow's impact on our foreign policy will continue long after that war ends. Why aren't Obama and McCain addressing that?

Why aren't the presidential candidates talking about Moscow's impact on our national security?