This video traces Vladimir Putin’s path from a hard childhood in Soviet Leningrad to the highest levels of Russian power. It ...

Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed ...

Thanksgiving dinner takes a dramatic turn when Chris introduces his girlfriend, Carla, to his overbearing mother, Maggie.

Today, while many autocrats proclaim their commitment to the  common man, they are chiefly in it for the money.

Mad Vladimir Putin showed he is the ultimate Scrooge – by sending World War Three fears stratospheric with a Christmas ...

Whatever the wider geopolitical and economic consequences of Donald Trump’s latest escapade in Latin America, there is one ...

Every survey of world governance shows democracy is in retreat. Meanwhile, dictators prosper and multiply. How can we save ...

In The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law plays Russia’s president as a cool, reluctant leader, a strategist who got the job because he was young, athletic and a spy. This is a creation far removed from ...

Follow live updates from NBC News as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual year-end news conference on ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed the head of military intelligence Kyrylo Budanov as his new chief of staff ...

I use the term “arrest” deliberately. It’s precisely the right term to describe the taking into custody of an indicted ...

Russia accused Ukraine of attempting to attack President Putin’s residence, a claim Kyiv denies, as tensions rise and peace talks face setbacks over unresolved territorial disputes.