The Brothers Tsarnaev: Clues to the Motives of the Alleged Boston Bombers
The land of their ancestry is fertile ground for rebellion and jihad but not everything that has emerged so far wraps up their motivations in a neat theory
The land of their ancestry is fertile ground for rebellion and jihad but not everything that has emerged so far wraps up their motivations in a neat theory
On the evening of Feb. 6, the Russian ballerina Anzhelina Vorontsova had to take another trip abroad — this time to Italy — for some performances she wished she had been able to decline. Winsome as a porcelain doll and …
At Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday morning, there was a great deal of confusion among the journalists about what exactly was meant to happen in Courtroom No. 17. On the roster, a preliminary hearing was slated for the …
It’s an open secret in Russia today that many politicians and businessmen pad their resumes with fake diplomas, either plagiarizing their dissertations or paying someone to do it for roughly the cost of a midsize sedan. Since …
An interview and profile of the official in charge of Moscow’s policy — and why he believes American adoptions could be a plot to depopulate Siberia
Apparently acceding that its erstwhile ally Assad may lose the civil war, Moscow may be cosying up to acceptable members of the opposition
Documents released by the hacker group Anonymous appear to reveal previously unknown shipments of repaired helicopter gunships from Russia to Syria
With the leader of the opposition in prison, the elections in Ukraine produced an unsurprising result. A leader of the ruling party explains to TIME why this is all good
An exclusive look at a leaked 43-page document detailing the winning strategy of a ruling-party gubernatorial candidate
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili conceded defeat as his ruling party suffered in parliamentary polls, thanks in part to videos showing torture in a prison a TIME correspondent once visited
A Russian President whose popularity is declining needs a ‘national idea’ to rationalize his rule. And it’s in the traditions of the pre-Soviet church-state relationship that he hopes to find it
The sentence and verdict against the feminist punk band is further evidence of the dangerous erosion of Russia’s constitutional separation of church and state
Is the ongoing trial of three Russian feminist punk rockers in Moscow a sign of a new tyrannical streak defining the rule of President Vladimir Putin?