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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The transfer of America's long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine is still on the table and Kyiv is engaged in “positive” ...

Much of the focus in the fighting has been around the city of Pokrovsk, a key site for both Ukraine and Russia. Meanwhile, UK ...

In a significant shift, the US has imposed stringent sanctions on Russia's top oil firms, Rosneft and Lukoil, targeting the ...

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

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 ...