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The Only Way the Ukraine War Can End

October 2, 2024

A damaged statue of Vladimir Lenin in the Ukrainian-controlled town of Sudzha, in Russia's Kursk province

How Defense Experts Got Ukraine Wrong

Eliot A. Cohen and Phillips Payson O’Brien

September 27, 2024

That Time I Was a Russian Propagandist

September 26, 2024

A collage of people watching a film and Vladimir Putin

Iran’s Russia Problem

September 23, 2024

The Atlantic Daily

The Russian Propaganda Attack on America

September 5, 2024

An image of the Kremlin in front of a cloudy dark night sky

The ‘Gray Zone’ Comes to Russia

August 13, 2024

A woman walks past a destroyed building in Mariupol.

Five Tiny Pieces of Paper

August 6, 2024

Prisoner swap, Putin

The Real Trade-Off With Russia

August 1, 2024

Collage showing Russian and American prisoners

The Kremlin Gets What It Wants

August 1, 2024

Evan Gershkovich

Evan Gershkovich’s Soviet-Era Show Trial

July 25, 2024

A black-and-white photo of Evan Gershkovich in prison and one of Vladimir Putin, separated by a thick red line. The men appear to be staring sideways at each other.

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Why NATO Still Exists

July 9, 2024

Soldiers stand next to tanks and the NATO flag

China May Be the Ukraine War’s Big Winner

Michael Schuman

June 24, 2024

A photo of Russian president Vladimir Putin greeting China's premier, Xi Jinping

Why Russia Is Happy at War

June 9, 2024

A photo of a tank in a parade at Red Square in Moscow for Victory Day over Nazi Germany, 2022

Ukraine Has Changed Too Much to Compromise With Russia

Illia Ponomarenko

May 7, 2024

A flower with petals the colors of the Ukrainian flag and a hole in the center

The Atlantic Daily

Autocracies Are Winning the Information War

May 6, 2024

A toy soldier holds a microphone like a machine gun

What Putin’s No. 2 Believes About the West

April 27, 2024

Putin and his No. 2

Time Is Running Out for Ukraine

April 7, 2024

A yellow ribbon and a blue ribbon superimposed on a photo of Congress

The Atlantic Daily

Evan Gershkovich’s Year in Captivity

March 29, 2024

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich looks out from inside a defendants' cage before a hearing

The Atlantic Daily

Russia’s Tragedy, Putin’s Humiliation

March 25, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin walks past his limousine

Conspiracy Theories About the Moscow Attack Are Unnecessary

March 23, 2024

A Moscow-area concert hall in flames

There Was No Russian Election

March 20, 2024

Black-and-white photo of Vladimir Putin in a black suit walking into a room

Putin’s ‘Rabble of Thin-Necked Henchmen’

March 16, 2024

Putin, frowning, strides past men in military uniform.

What’s Happening in Russia Is Not an Election

March 14, 2024

Illustration showing a hand inserting a ballot into a box that has Putin's face on it

‘We Are Being Punished for Daring to Criticize the Authority’

March 3, 2024

Portrait of Oleg Orlov

What Makes Russia’s Economy So Sanctions-Resistant?

James Surowiecki

February 24, 2024

An illustration showing a Soviet-style poster of a hand grabbing cash

What Tucker Carlson Saw in Moscow

February 16, 2024

Tucker Carlson in Russian supermarket

The Atlantic Daily

If Russia Wins

February 8, 2024

The Mother Motherland Monument statue in Kiev, showing a woman holding up a shield and sword

What to Read to Understand Russia

January 12, 2024

A girl reading a book walks by a statue of Dostoyevsky.

A Vision of Russia as a Country That Runs on Violence

January 8, 2024

a hammer and sickle piercing a book against a red background

Give Russia’s Frozen Assets to Ukraine Now

December 18, 2023

Firefighters and rescue workers at the scene of a Russian missile strike on Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

The Wonder Reader

How to Love Winter a Little More

December 9, 2023

A child in a hat

How I Lost the Russia That Never Was

November 24, 2023

Moscow is seen through the window of a darkened hotel room.

The West Must Defeat Russia

November 10, 2023

A photo of a soldier shown from the back

Why Vladimir Putin Is Embracing Germany’s Far Right

Liana Fix and Caroline Kapp

October 31, 2023

vladimir putin in front of an AFD protest image

A Very Public Execution in Russia

August 23, 2023

Close-up picture of Yevgeny Prigozhin looking unhappy

Russia Has a New Gulag

July 14, 2023

A jail cell in Izium, Ukraine