Russia

Is U.S.-Russia New START treaty back on the negotiating table?

October 23, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

The question arises after years of stalling by the Trump administration.

Survivor of Nazis’ Leningrad siege now helps needy during pandemic

May 7, 2020 By Irina Titova

80-year-old Galina Yakovleva drives a white minivan every day through the city on a one-woman charitable mission for the elderly and needy families.

Postcard from Krasnodar: How is Russia doing in an era of Western sanctions?

March 26, 2020 By Thomas Egan

My trip was organized by the Center for Citizen Initiatives that organizes trips like this every year. The tour group consisted of 48 people from all backgrounds, some of whom had made this trip before.

The bombs of the last war and preparations for the next rattle Germany

January 17, 2020 By Victor Grossman

75 years after WWII, the happy handshakes and yearnings of that momentous springtime of 1945 seem fully forgotten, erased.

Moscow Communists see vote increase after demanding democracy in Russia

September 12, 2019 By John Wojcik

When asked about alleged Russian interference in U.S. elections, journalist Maria Bezchastnaya noted that Americans “don’t need Russia to make their elections unfair.”