Despite Mečiar’s talk of Slovakia as an “East-West bridge”, its economic reliance on Russia deepened. By 1996, Slovakia had ...

In what was largely a formality, Vladimir Putin was confirmed in office in the Russian presidential elections with 52.9% of ...

When Vladimir Putin launched his bid to be elected as Russia’s president in 2000, he had already been in the role for a month and a half. His predecessor Boris Yeltsin had stepped down on 31 December ...

March 26, 2000, Vladimir Putin won the Russian presidential election, making him the official successor of Boris Yeltsin, who had ...

History has shown that the Russian people can overcome any challenge if they are united. We are not afraid of difficulties; ...

He is poised to continue this game of pretending to seek peace while waging war for months. Read more at straitstimes.com.

For too long, we in the West have underestimated Putin’s global ideological vision as an animating force for his foreign-policy agenda. The tragic consequence is that today Putinism is advancing ...

By giving the floor to Vladislav Sourkov, long the wizard of the Kremlin, L'Express sheds new light on the Russian president's imperialist plans.

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia ... Yeltsin named this FSS chief the prime minister of Russia. And that was Vladimir Putin, until then a political nobody. “He was so cool and ...