Russia
Revolution's End
Looking at the Arab Spring through 20 years of post-Soviet history.
BY SUSAN GLASSER | AUGUST 8, 2011
Amazing Grace
To paraphrase the old adage, there are no atheists in NATO-besieged pleasure palaces. FP looks at the dictators and warlords who've embraced a higher power once they ran low on the earthly kind.
BY EDMUND DOWNIE | AUGUST 5, 2011
This Fight Ain't Over
Think the debt ceiling gridlock was ugly? Congress is just getting warmed up. Here are eight more foreign-policy battles right around the corner.
BY JOSH ROGIN | AUGUST 4, 2011
Guilty Until Proven Guilty
In the cage of justice, sometimes a courtroom's verdict is long foretold.
BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 3, 2011
The Sweet Smell of Schadenfreude
The world is crowing over America's near-economic meltdown.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | AUGUST 2, 2011
What Was at Stake in 1962?
A closer look at the nuclear stockpiles of the world's two superpowers as the Cuban Missile Crisis began.
BY RACHEL DOBBS | JULY 17, 2011
Betting Against the President
When Medvedev can't even convince party insiders to stick up for him, does he have a shot at keeping his job?
BY LEON ARON | JULY 8, 2011
Houston, We Have a Problem
The end of the space shuttle program is a big step back for the United States, and a giant leap forward for everyone else.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 7, 2011
After the Fall
The 15 countries of the former Soviet Union have taken radically different political paths over the last two decades.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JUNE 24, 2011
Empty Words
When are Westerners going to learn that reform talk is cheap in the Kremlin?
BY JULIA IOFFE | JUNE 21, 2011
Three Days in Foros
In August 1991, Soviet hardliners held Mikhail Gorbachev captive at a Crimean resort in a last-ditch effort to save the crumbling Soviet empire. Anatoly Chernyaev, Gorbachev's foreign policy advisor was there when it happened. In this excerpt from the diary he kept at the time -- newly translated into English -- he tells the story of the coup attempt that destroyed the USSR.
BY ANATOLY CHERNYAEV | JUNE 21, 2011
Fading Legacy
Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov were giants. Why do so few Russians remember them?
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | JUNE 20, 2011
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
*And why it matters today in a new age of revolution.
BY LEON ARON | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Meltdown
For the first time, Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost -- and changed the world.
BY GENNADY BURBULIS WITH MICHELE A. BERDY | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Gorby, the Man Who Changed the World
Life in the limelight for the West's favorite Soviet.
BY EDMUND DOWNIE, SOPHIA JONES | JUNE 20, 2011
The Long, Lame Afterlife of Mikhail Gorbachev
A cautionary tale about what happens when you fail to see the revolution coming.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM | JULY/AUGUST 2011
How'd We Do Covering the Revolution?
Looking back with a generous dose of humility.
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | JULY/AUGUST 2011
The Far Side of the Soviet Moon
Ten of Russia's most disturbing unsolved mysteries.
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Gridlock and Gold Porsches
On Russia's crowded streets the gulf between rich and poor has never been bigger.
JUNE 15, 2011
Road Rage in Russia
Moscow's elite has decided it doesn't need to follow the traffic laws. Will there be a pedestrian revolution?
BY JULIA IOFFE | JUNE 14, 2011
Giving Away the Farm
The Obama administration is freely giving Russia sensitive information about missile defense that weakens U.S. national security.
BY R. JAMES WOOLSEY, REBECCAH HEINRICHS | JUNE 7, 2011
All Tomorrow's Parties
When one fake opposition party stops effectively distracting the Russian people, what's the Kremlin to do? Give them a new one, of course.
BY JULIA IOFFE | MAY 25, 2011
Putin's Puppets
How do you win a Russian election? First, invent a coalition.
BY JULIA IOFFE | MAY 6, 2011
Russia's Crime of the Century
How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed my partner when he tried to expose them.
BY JAMISON FIRESTONE | APRIL 20, 2011
The Countdown Begins …
But no one knows where it's going to end. A skeptic's look at the 2012 Russian election.
BY JULIA IOFFE | APRIL 14, 2011
Bad Politics, Worse Prose
From suicidal astronauts to bestiality, you can learn a lot about what makes the world's worst tyrants tick from the terrible books they write.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | APRIL 8, 2011
The LWOT: Middle East unrest tops counterterrorism agenda; Media wary of covering 9/11 Gitmo trial
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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | APRIL 8, 2011
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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