Alexander Motyl

Pavel Gubarev, the 2014 Donbas separatist, now says Russia has lost 1 million men in Ukraine. Putin's nationalist base is openly turning against him.

Pavel Gubarev, the former neo-Nazi paramilitary who declared himself People's Governor of the Donbas in March 2014 and helped ignite Russia's war

Despite close relations with Russia, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is wary about joining the war in Ukraine.

Kyiv was supposed to fall in three days. Now a Ukrainian victory — and a Russian collapse — looks "decidedly plausible," even likely.

After Putin's 11-hour barrage on Kyiv, a leading Russia scholar argues the dictator is flailing — mocked at home, unable to win, and stoppable only by defeat.

The war meant to restore Russian greatness is instead turning Moscow into Beijing's junior partner.

The two neighbors are mutually dependent in fighting the Russian menace. They should remember this when historical disputes erupt.

Weakened and humiliated by Putin’s incompetence and idiocy in Ukraine, Russian elites might just decide to end his political career and save what remains of their country by taking Graham’s advice.

Might Russia's illegitimate president be ready to negotiate an end to the Russian war against Ukraine?

The Russian Orthodox Church is an outlier among religious groups in its embrace of, and enthusiasm for, weapons of mass destruction.