Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir ... public opinion in Putin’s Russia must be understood not as an unmoving monolith but rather like slow-moving lava that might change direction ...

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says the United States, China and Russia have the prime responsibility to pull the world back from the brink

In contrast, the Russian Federation has been referred to as an “imitation democracy”. It has institutions that one would find in democratic systems of government (a parliament and a directly elected president). But, among other flaws, these institutions do not function within a genuinely competitive or fair electoral environment.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 89 seconds before midnight—one second closer to the theoretical point of annihilation.

Green campaigners are loudly calling for governments to spend up to 25% of our GDP, choking growth in the name of climate change.

The recently published memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel are fuelling the present-day criticism of her legacy. And it is true that today, Germany does face many great challenges. But a close reading suggests that it would be too simplistic to lay full responsibility at her feet, as many analysts are wont to do.

Major global players are devising their strategies in response to the protectionism policies promised by the Trump presidency

As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors to unique higher ground. By Austyn Gaffney and Jon Cherry The ...

The Kremlin says a settlement in Ukraine can't be facilitated by a drop in global oil prices as U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested.

In the interview Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday also echoed U.S. President Donald Trump's claim the conflict in Ukraine could have been prevented had he been in the White House in 2022.

Jan. 27, 2025 — An interdisciplinary team of researchers has projected that if the rate of global CO2 emissions continues to increase and reaches a high emission scenario, sea levels would as a ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky argued during an interview that President Trump’s recent tough rhetoric is what Russian President Vladimir Putin is “afraid of.”  Since being sworn in, Trump