Beijing now stands as Moscow’s economic lifeline, diplomatic shield, and technological supplier. In return, Russia provides cheap energy, discounted raw materials, and geopolitical obedience. The shift has created an inversion of the Cold War hierarchy: a weakened Russia orbiting a confident, globally ascendant China.

The deep issue in the Russia-Ukraine war is how to end an aggressive 21st-century war while avoiding nuclear devastation and multimillion casualties. Unfortunately, raw casualties in Ukraine have reached the multimillions.

Russia is remaking Mariupol, which was devastated by a brutal siege in 2022. Ukrainians seeking to move back are finding it hard to recognize the city, or to reclaim their property.

Putin's envoy finds himself under the spotlight over a draft peace plan that emerged after he spent days with Steve Witkoff in Miami.

Stop and you are dead, or fight and you have a chance to survive as a country and with your family," documentary filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov tells Trudy Rubin.

The planned Trump-Putin summit in Budapest has been shelved. The White House says there's no point meeting unless "we're going to make a deal." Some view this as a setback for diplomacy, but it may well be the clearest moment in a long struggle to curb Russia's appetite for war.

Volunteers and soldiers in eastern Ukraine are rescuing medieval “stone babas”—800-year-old statues—from the frontline. What are they and why do they matter?

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ultimately defeated the Soviet Union.