The capital of terror
Putin’s Russia is a factory of conspiracy theories that does not shy away from inventing a link between the Islamic State and Ukraine, or even NATO and Washington if it feels the need to do so
Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed over the years
The details of what happened to President Vladimir Putin’s key political challenger, Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison colony on Friday, are unknown
The long agony of the Soviet Union: local identities, global conflicts
The implosion of the Soviet space, far from being a clean break with the past, has left cultural and political questions still unresolved
Russian students to be schooled in a version of history tailored to Vladimir Putin’s nationalism
A new textbook to be introduced as compulsory reading in high schools rewrites much of post-World War II history to meet the designs of the Kremlin