Burgas is Bulgaria's only oil refinery, and was a key part of Lukoil's foreign business empire, which is being threatened ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to bring back the Russian empire; indeed, he has staked his political fortunes on ...

The Kremlin is focusing its fire on Pokrovsk, a gateway to the Donetsk region, which Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, ...

Since 1949, NATO has been preparing to defend Western Europe from a Russian attack. Until 1989 Russia had massed several hundred thousand troops in East Germany along with several thousand tanks, most ...

Location is everything. Kharkiv is just 40km (25 miles) from Russia, once a vital trading partner of Ukraine but now the ...

Emmanuel Carrère’s best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the ...

Two books look at how so much central and eastern Europe identity has long been defined by an animosity to Moscow ...

Taking a page from the 1973 Arab oil shock, Ukraine takes aim this fall at a political pillar of Putinism: the private car. Unbeknownst to many in the West, Russia has the fourth largest private car ...

Such a stalemate is still far from happening. Since 2022, Ukraine has successfully thwarted most Russian advances. It repelled the initial assault on Kyiv. It freed Kherson. It even counterattacked on ...

WTI crude jumps 4% as U.S. sanctions hit Russian oil firms. Traders eye key moving averages and bullish oil outlook as India ...