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The Russia File podcast explores Russia: its history, politics, culture and society, and its relations with the surrounding countries, the United States and beyond. It is a companion podcast...
Latin America has long been a playground for Russia’s anti-Western influence operations. But today Russia isn’t alone in this game: In recen...
Russia’s intensive involvement with the African continent goes back decades. During the Cold War, Moscow viewed Africa as its “natural” sphe...
In December 2023, Georgia was granted official European Union candidate status, but the country's path to EU membership may now be at risk b...
One of the sectors targeted by U.S. economic sanctions is Russia's civil aviation. Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bo...
Russian authorities are taking tentative steps to limit access to abortion and other aspects of reproductive health, ostensibly to combat th...
Two years after Russia launched the invasion of Ukraine, Izabella Tabarovsky sat down with Maxim Trudolyubov, editor in chief of the Kennan...
Two years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Izabella Tabarovsky sat down with Mykhailo Minakov, the Kennan Institute’s senior a...
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has highlighted some of its own domestic problems. One of them is the uneven economic development of...
In August 2020, Aleksandr Lukashenko, authoritarian leader of Belarus, denied electoral fraud and claimed landslide victory in his sixth pre...
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Berlin has emerged as a crucial center of activity for both Ukrainian refugees and Russian political...
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine was supposed to illustrate the Russian army’s ability to conduct a “contactless,” “surgical” military operation...
The relationship between the artist and the state has always been fraught in Putin’s Russia, where government remains the primary funder of...
When in 1991 Boris Yeltsin invited Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to open a news bureau in Russia, the move was hailed as the clearest sign...
In November 2022, the Russian parliament passed a new bill banning any activity that can be interpreted as the promotion of “non-traditional...
Poland and Russia share a long history that has been full of grievances and unresolved traumas. And while 2007 saw a positive shift in the r...
For those living under the Russian occupation in Ukraine, life has turned into a daily struggle and search for food, water, and medicine. Iz...
The story of Boris Nemtsov, Russia's prominent opposition politician assassinated in 2015, is deeply intertwined with pivotal moments of con...
The story of Boris Nemtsov, Russia's prominent opposition politician assassinated in 2015, is deeply intertwined with pivotal moments of con...
The war in Ukraine has highlighted Russian propaganda and the way it weaponizes the memory of World War II for political purposes—in this ca...
Over the past 10 years or so, Russia’s relations with the West have been reaching new lows. In bilateral terms, no other relationship has be...
Many prefer to measure today's authoritarian regimes against the West’s standards in everything from governance to culture. But taking a clo...
A Soviet nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate, Andrei Sakharov fought for disarmament, world peace, and human rights. To what extent is his...
The Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin made his pioneering spaceflight 60 years ago. In the USSR, it marked a time of optimistic, forward-looking mod...
Russia is often seen as a country that was led astray by a former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin. Informed by his training and character, it is...
Sputnik V, Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, is not just a scientific achievement but a golden moment for vaccine diplomacy. Despite the initial di...
Most Russians have long stopped expecting that any real change may come from electoral politics, a playing field tightly controlled by the K...
The Russia File podcast explores Russia: its history, politics, culture and society, and its relations with the surrounding countries, the U...
Thirty years ago, a million Russian-speaking immigrants arrived in Israel. Overnight, they became one of the largest Russian-speaking commun...
The media environments in Russia and the US are almost mirror opposites. In the US, mainstream media can cut away from the sitting president...
America’s universities and think tanks produce first-rate studies of Russia’s history, culture, and politics. And yet, the way Russia featur...
Earlier this year, Vladimir Putin published an article in a Washington, DC think tank publication seeking to explain to American audiences t...
While everyone is preoccupied with the COVID-19, public protests, and electoral politics, the world’s three largest nuclear powers are busy...
With presidential term limits for Vladimir Putin nullified, has Russia become more authoritarian? What is the difference between "overt" and...
For the Kremlin, the memory of World War II is fodder for a national myth of military glory and sacrifice. But for ordinary Russians, the st...
Well-known Belarusian journalist Franak Viačorka and the Russia File's Maxim Trudolyubov discuss Belarusian society's newfound agency and wo...
In a conversation with Samuel Greene, director of King's Russia Institute, the Russia File discusses the Kremlin's COVID-19 politics and Rus...