We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Russia is not a normal country. That's the obvious and inescapable conclusion one comes to after considering everything from the country's ...

As the chances of President Donald Trump’s peace deal in Ukraine seemingly recede, attention turns back to the question of Vladimir Putin and his war aims. What does the Russian president want to ...

Russia’s struggle with democracy is deeply rooted in its geography, history, political culture, and centuries-old power ...

In the opening moments of the 2022, Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, Russian opposition leader Alexei Nalvany is asked by the film's director about the possibility of him dying. Nalvany avoids ...

Controversy arose at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5 following the screening of a documentary film that attempts to humanize Russian soldiers involved in the war against Ukraine. Russian-Canadian ...

Anna Nemzer, former journalist at exiled Russian news network TV Rain, offered a word of warning today — don’t ignore “unpleasant” political signs. That comes from someone with firsthand knowledge of ...

A Rising Fury follows a Ukrainian couple in love, tracing the roots of Russia’s war from the 2013 Kyiv uprising to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. To me, Ukraine is the Nightwatch of democracy.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — HBO announced that it's producing a documentary chronicling the life of Brent Renaud, a Little Rock filmmaker and journalist who was killed by Russian forces in Ukraine in 2022.

A new documentary film from Anastasia Trofimova is being slammed as an attempt to justify Moscow's war crimes in Ukraine. Courtesy of TIFF A documentary accused of portraying Russian soldiers as ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University (THE CONVERSATION) As the chances of President ...