As NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Beijing at a March 23 press conference not to aid Russia in the Ukraine war, a batch of e-mails believed to be sent by Chinese state-sponsored hackers landed in the inboxes of researchers and engineers at several Russian military-development institutes. The e-mails all carried …

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing residents of two Ukrainian regions, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya, parts of which have been occupied by Russian forces during Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, to obtain Russian citizenship. The decree, signed on May 25, states that residents of the two regions can receive …

Russians who believe that Ukraine can be Finlandized forget that Finlandization in the land of its namesake happened only when Helsinki, “not without basis, feared that if revanchist attitudes were to grow, instead of Soviet diplomats would come Soviet soldiers.” In the absence of such a certainty, the Russian commentator …