Tim Marshall analyses the limits of Vladimir Putin's global ambitions from an extract of Prisoners of Geography ...

Putin changes tune on talks with Zelensky ahead of London peace summit - Russia has resumed its brutal aerial assault attack ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine, his aim was to sweep into the capital, ...

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In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Trump ramped up the pressure by threatening university research funding and ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.