Nation Topics - Vladimir Putin | 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 former Liberian dictator abetted the atrocities of a proxy army. Henry Kissinger did the same in Indonesia/East Timor.

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

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.

The prosperous, urban middle-class—those who benefit from the government’s policies—have revolted against it. If even they don’t support the existing order, what future does it have?

Mass demonstrations in Moscow and dozens of other cities have been the most striking display of grassroots activism since the early 1990s.

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

Ever since 1991, Russians have been looking to the Soviet past for comfort and pride.