Marco Rubio as the next Secretary of State, few were surprised or bewildered like, for instance, when Matt Gaetz was named as ...

After a significant wait, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 7 congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the U.S. presidential election, stating he’s ready to hold discussions with the ...

Post-Soviet Reaction to Trump’s Win: Stocks Rally in Russia, But Officials in Moscow, Kyiv Don’t Hold Their Breath ...

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Please join the Belfer Center’s Russia Matters project on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 12:00pm for an online discussion with Thomas Graham and Anatol Lieven, two highly-regarded Russia experts, on the ...

As Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts the first summit of BRICS+ in Tatarstan’s capital Kazan on Oct. 22–24, it has motivated me to update my comparison of this group of countries with the G-7 in ...

Like all but one of Levada’s previous polls on Ukraine since October 2022, the September 2024 poll shows that the percentage of respondents favoring an end to Russia’s so-called special military ...

The Sino-Russian partnership is tighter than the Sino-Soviet one, with no reason for a split any time soon.

Western attempts to hit Russia's oil and gas industry in response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine have saved China nearly $16 billion between March 2022 and June 2024 by purchasing Russia’s oil and ...

Full text of the 2023 Russian Foreign Policy Concept (in Russian). Full text of the 2023 Russian Foreign Policy Concept (in English). 2020 Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on ...

Russia Matters is a project launched in 2016 by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and made possible with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and ...