Increasingly isolated president is determined to press on with Ukraine war, say well-placed sources, despite ailing economy ...

“Xi has consolidated this position that Great Power politics now must go through Beijing,” one expert tells TIME.

A weakened international order under President Donald Trump, combined with rising oil prices following the American war against Iran, has emboldened President Vladimir Putin of Russia to keep pressing ...

During the Cold War, few senior Soviet officials understood the dynamics of Soviet relations with the West as well as Valentin Falin. A diplomat and adviser to several Soviet leaders, Falin was ...