Opinion

By Katerina Gordeyeva

By Katerina Gordeyeva

By Katerina Gordeyeva

By Katerina Gordeyeva

Perhaps the biography of Rudolf Nureyev holds an answer to the question of what happened at the Bolshoi Theater just days before the premiere of a show chronicling his life ...

By Irina Olimpieva

By Irina Olimpieva

By Irina Olimpieva

By Irina Olimpieva

In authoritarian regimes, the social sciences are the most vulnerable to state interventions

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

Anything other than a presidential brawl would have passed as a diplomatic breakthrough.

By Alexei Levinson

By Alexei Levinson

By Alexei Levinson

By Alexei Levinson

The country's voters may have just one request for their next president: maintain the status quo

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

By Michele A. Berdy

While it is true that Eskimos do not have 50 words for snow, in the past month I have learned at least 50 ways of saying “Can you believe this ...

By David Kharebov

By David Kharebov

By David Kharebov

By David Kharebov

The two presidents are set to meet for the first time today on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany.

How should the U.S. president approach his first face-to-face with Putin? Five experts weigh in from Washington.

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

Russia’s foreign policy reinvented itself in mid-2012 after Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency. His third term has been almost entirely consumed by a foreign agenda with only residual attention ...

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

The Moscow Times' long-time columnist takes a look into the crystal ball of Russia’s political future.

By John Freedman

By John Freedman

By John Freedman

By John Freedman

This incident is a continuation of a late May attempt to attack Gogol Center’s prominent artistic director Kirill Serbrennikov. Watch this case. Its repercussions may go far beyond the stages ...

By David Homak

By David Homak

By David Homak

By David Homak

Russian authorities claim their attacks on Telegram are because the platform helps terrorists

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is working hard to save what remains of the U.S.-Russia relationship.

By Mikhail Fishman

By Mikhail Fishman

By Mikhail Fishman

By Mikhail Fishman

During all Putin’s time in power, hardly a single image of him having fun with others comes to mind. We have never seen him enjoying something or sharing a mundane ...

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

By Mark Galeotti

BuzzFeed's investigation plays into a dominant narrative within the West where "Russia is to blame."

By Unfair Observer

By Unfair Observer

By Unfair Observer

By Unfair Observer

Russia currently blocks 6.3 million websites, according to internet freedom watchdog Rublacklist.net.

By Anna Nemtsova

By Anna Nemtsova

By Anna Nemtsova

By Anna Nemtsova

Up to 82 percent of U.S. adults now see Russia as a threat.

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

By Vladimir Frolov

President Putin has two options: retaliate in kind, and forfeit hopes for repairing ties with Washington, or risk being exposed as weak in defense of Russia’s interests.

By Mikhail Fishman

By Mikhail Fishman

By Mikhail Fishman

By Mikhail Fishman

In the last few months, Navalny has taken a quantum leap, establishing himself as the only true and energetic opponent of Putin in Russian politics.