Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to deploy several dozen military aircraft and helicopters to Syria and set up a military base to maintain them was motivated by a set of interconnected aims and reasons. They can be separated into…

In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, President Vladimir Putin published an article in Russia's leading business daily, Vedomosti, on the economic policy he intended to pursue if the Russian people would let him serve another term…

As attempts to integrate Russia into the West have largely failed, culminating in the sharp rupture over Ukraine, the Kremlin feels it has no choice but to move toward China, something it is reluctant to admit in order to avoid being…

Despite inflicting severe pain on the economy, and therefore on ordinary Russians, sanctions imposed by Western states on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis have had the opposite effect: instead of weakening the domestic power base of President…

While the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is promoted by Russia as a global counterweight to US hegemony, China - Moscow's main partner in the organization - is reluctant to openly engage in the great power rivalry. China of course…