Your average Russian is becoming more religious, and it matters. The Russian Orthodox Church is not only touting an increasingly devoted...

Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, which recently resulted in a referendum on the secession and annexation of the Crimean...

After Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea, he was charged with trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union. Although the Russian president has not...

Russia’s annexation of Crimea, unrest in Ukraine and subsequent narratives of a “New Cold War” bring new hopes and worries to leaders in...

I’m certainly a little late to the party on Ukraine news – leading up to Russia’s bold annexation of Crimea, Ukraine was gripped for...

On May 18, 1944, Joseph Stalin forcibly deported the Crimean Tatars in what is known as the “Surgun” (Crimean Tatar for ‘exile’). As the...

President Obama sat down for an interview – or rather, comedy skit – with Zach Galifianakis on his web series “Between Two Ferns.”...

There’s something archetypal about the ignominious flight of a newly unseated despot — Louis XVI, the Tsar and the Shah all come to mind....

Russian expansionism makes many alarm bells go off in the Western world. When Putin’s forces occupied Crimea on February 27, observers in...

Long dismissed as the poorest country in Europe, the Republic of Moldova is now on a path towards integration with Western Europe that...

Image courtesy of the Watson Institute, Brown University.[dropca BPR is liveblogging the Watson Institute’s teach-in, “Making Sense of...

Though diplomatic relations with Russia are cooling globally, one region stands out: the Arctic. The members of the Arctic Council —...

As journalists began to arrive in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics, it became apparent that the venues and infrastructure were...

In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, a red button marked “reset” (peregruzka) to...

The Sochi Olympics were the most expensive Olympic Games in history and, by some estimates, more expensive than all other Winter Olympics...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s current position is challenging at best. His government now has to decide whether to finally sign...

In 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin and now former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak were delighted when their gas monopolies...

Michael Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013, talks to Brown Political Review’s Sam Rubinstein. Oren stepped...

On September 11 of this year, the American public awoke to news headlines about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in the New York...

Recent attempts by the Kremlin to smear its political antagonists and critics mark a return to a pre-perestroika use of the judicial...