It’s hard to sift history’s judgment from the hot takes, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s telegram of condolence on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev does little to help.

For the war is an attempt of Putin’s Russia, shrinking in terms of population and power, to latch onto the prospering people that Gorbachev let go. It is often said that the invasion of Ukraine ...

Trump's seeming astonishment at Putin shows a reassuring horror at mass slaughter but also an innocence of knowledge about ...

Trump has posted that Putin “has gone absolutely crazy” as a result, and for once the President might be right. Trump was ...

Russia says it is currently drafting its version a memorandum that would establish the contours of a peace accord and cannot ...

Putin once called the extinction of the Eastern ... You might be surprised, but the nickname used for Trump in the Kremlin is the American Gorbachev. For them, Mikhail Gorbachev is not a democrat ...

Russia’s conditions for a peace settlement in Ukraine reportedly include a written Western commitment to halt NATO’s eastward ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in ...

For starters, Gorbachev came out as a supporter of Russia’s 2014 move to annex the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine, a prelude to Putin’s full-scale invasion of the country.