Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

The recent exchange of several Russian political hostages for Moscow’s spies and assassins, facilitated by the Biden administration, has refocused attention on Russia’s future. Following their release ...

Yasina, program director at Open Russia. Her group’s founder, board chairman, and sole donor is in a Siberian penal colony. Prosecutors raided the charity’s offices in Moscow last fall as part of a ...

Yakov Kronrod was a leading figure of the Soviet economic school of so-called marketeers (tovarniki) and a major participant ...

As the leaders of the US and Russia prepare to meet in Alaska, analysts are trying to predict the potential policy implications of the historic summit. In contrast to the normal patterns of analysis ...

Democratic socialism has been thrust into the political limelight recently, thanks to self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani winning the race to become New York City’s next mayor earlier ...

The U.S. has long used the promotion of democracy overseas as a crucial form of “soft power,” not only to gain ideological influence in global geopolitics, but also to foster the emergence of ...