Although Rosstat has decided to keep the data secret until 2025, many independent demographers believe that the decline in ...

Russia is already in a state of strategic defeat, and its attempts to intimidate the world with so-called "wonder weapons" ...

"Between January 4 and January 12, 2026, nine newborns died at Novokuznetsk Maternity Hospital No. 1 as a consequence of the ...

As Moscow pours resources into its war in Ukraine, cracks are appearing across Russia’s wider network of strategic partners.

It was part of the détente that culminated in the Helsinki Accords, the breakthrough agreement that finally, 30 years after the end of World War II, stabilized relations between the Western alliance ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was built on propaganda, but its true drivers run far deeper. Beneath claims about NATO and security lie historical revisionism, economic decline, demographic crisis, and ...

Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left in four years. Can the regime, and country, survive the engulfing ‘polycrisis’?

Asked in December 2025 what the biggest sticking point was in negotiating peace in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump got ...

Multiple, intersecting Middle East crises combined with an unpredictable United States augur a tumultuous 2026 for the region ...

FINDING myself last weekend back in Berlin after several years’ absence I found many changes but some constants.A power ...

Maduro may be gone, but Venezuela’s tragedy isn’t. The Catholic Church’s response to U.S. intervention understands that.

As U.S. seizures of oil tankers linked to Venezuela surge, so do concerns in Cuba about whether the island’s government and ...