By offering aid to hard-hit countries, Moscow hopes it can restore its reputation as a responsible global actor.

Successfully fighting disinformation and influence operations of authoritarian adversaries requires understanding how these efforts have been developed by—and are run out of—the intelligence services.

Putin is re-writing the past to justify authoritarianism in the present.

Russia is increasingly turning to armies of legal professionals to press its interests and bully its detractors in the West.

Putin has tried turning a civil war into a counter-terrorism operation before. It’s unlikely to work out so well for him this time.