The hope is that an economic crisis in Russia leads to social unrest and political instability, possibly resulting in the ...

A middle-aged man in camouflage gets on a bus in central Moscow. He is holding a plastic bag that contains a bottle of vodka and a can of beer. Slightly swaying, his eyes blurred, he sips alternately ...

IS THIS IT, finally? After four years of sanctions-busting growth, a chorus of think-tank economists is calling time on Russia’s war economy. A new report from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy ...

About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine, money that does little to support its long-term development. By Paul Sonne Reporting from Berlin See more of our coverage ...

Four years ago, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, resulting in the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II. Initially conceived as a rapid operation to overthrow Kyiv, the ...

Watch FRONTLINE’s documentaries examining the conflict’s evolution, Vladimir Putin’s grievances with the West and crackdown on dissent at home, and the human toll of war. People and children stand on ...

Russia has emerged as an early beneficiary of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, aided by higher oil revenues, rising demand for other products it produces like fertilizers, and the prospect of air defense ...

The Iran war has handed Russia’s beleaguered economy a much-needed lifeline. High oil prices are boosting the Kremlin’s coffers, helping plug a hole in its federal budget and sustain the war effort in ...

Western news media outlets are awash with enthusiasm for Ukraine’s successes in the most recent phase of its ongoing drone and missile wars against Russia. Photos and videos of a blazing Russian oil ...

Russia is helping to keep the Iranian regime afloat. Historian and Russia expert Sergey Radchenko of Johns Hopkins University joins us now to discuss the dynamics of that relationship. So how exactly ...