An open society needs to be keenly aware of the cynical perfidy of its adversaries.

A glimpse of the seamy underbelly of Russia’s oil industry.

Putin made a Faustian pact to keep peace in Chechnya. It’s now coming back to haunt him.

A look at the networks connecting the various Russians attending Donald Trump, Jr.’s notorious meeting shows us just what the Russian state is—and what it wants.

What a silly set of lies about a doctored YouTube clip in the Oliver Stone documentary tells us about how Putin gets his information.

Watch what happens when you go out of your way to praise Putin.

As Putin heads to meet French President Emanuel Macron next week, his security services are interrogating a celebrated Cannes-winning director in Moscow.

International media like to portray Putin’s maneuvering in Ukraine and Syria as having wrested him a seat at the big boys’ table. But in truth, his corrupt regime has fewer and fewer friends around the world.

Russia is a violent place, and not all the assassinations that happen there are connected. But sometimes they look like they might be…

Now that Dmitry Medvedev knows beyond a reasonable doubt that he is being attacked, he will ruthlessly clean house when he gets his hands on the throne. And his enemies know he knows who they are.