Nation Topics - Moscow | The Nation

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

How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

Rodric Braithwaite, Jonathan Steele and Artemy Kalinovsky analyze the forgotten history of Afghan communism and the Soviet occupation.

The Czech playwright's enduring ideas about politics, truth and human nature.

The Other America offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable.

The opposition movement must be reconstructed anew, from the bottom and from the left.

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

Putin will doubtless win the presidency again. But he faces a very different country from the one he has ruled unchallenged for the last twelve years.

An interview with Jonathan Schell, the unlikely oracle of Occupy Wall Street, on revolution, non-violent protest and more.

It would intensify the civil conflict and provoke a dangerous proxy war with Russia.