Russia’s economy and war effort is coming under increasing strain, which will pose increasingly acute challenges to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ability to sustain the war over the long term. The Washington Post reported on October 27 that the Russian economy is “in danger of overheating,” noting that Russia’s excessively …

Faced with an apparent lack of successes in his own department, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), has come up with an alternative way of going down in history. His most recent craze is the initiative to rename multiple streets in Moscow after Russian and Soviet …

This Saturday, October 26, citizens of the Republic of Georgia in the South Caucasus began voting in parliamentary elections that will determine the future of their country. Georgia’s political arena is divided between a pro-European opposition and a ruling party accused of pro-Russian authoritarianism. Polling stations opened at around 8 …