Natan Sharansky and others question whether the Jewish state is botching the chance to rescue and integrate a potentially valuable new wave of Russian Jewish olim fleeing repression at home
A dispatch from the Russia of the recent past
The warlord’s abortive rebellion has exposed the hollowness of the Putin regime
Kyiv is fighting three wars, not one—and time likely favors Moscow
The passing of Ilya Kabakov, 1933-2023, reminds us how the movement he pioneered under totalitarian rule paved the way for post-Soviet Russian art
By taking an American journalist hostage, Putin’s Russia announces its transformation into a full-blown terrorist state
Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar on the moral and historical responsibility for maintaining Jewish communal life in a harsh environment
With a new Cold War emerging, can Israel continue to sit on the fence?
Sanctions have failed to break Putin, and the West is running out of missiles and bullets
Hopes that post-Soviet Russia would join the ranks of prosperous liberal democracies have proven to be a chimera
The Latvian American financier and quasi-counterfeit ‘Pentagon analyst’ Dan Rapoport led the kind of life that makes any cause of his recent death—assassination, suicide, or pseudocide—all equally plausible
Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?
Blinded by their own Cold War propaganda, Americans can’t see Berlin’s Ukraine policy for what it is
By misjudging the size and importance of Russia’s economy, the West might have taken steps toward its own isolation
Ukraine shows that the ‘return of great power rivalry’ isn’t happening under the Biden administration
We are living in a material world, after all
The moral and historical illiteracy of boycotting Russian identity and culture
As Vladimir Putin methodically destroys the remains of Russian civil society, a new group of emigres flees the country, only to find themselves frozen out of Western life