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80 years later, the perpetrators of Stalin's 'Great Terror' revealed

Feb 09, 2017

A new historical project is the first comprehensive effort to identify every single one of the 40,000 NKVD secret police officers responsible for one of the darkest periods in the history of the Soviet Union

25 years after liberalization, Russians are cautious of democratic reforms

Oct 26, 2016

Russia is ready to mark the 25th anniversary of economic liberalization, which took place immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Why did it fail and what impact did it have on Russians?

Why the 1991 Soviet coup failed

Aug 18, 2016

25 years ago, the State Emergency Committee failed to take into account the changing political dynamics within Russia that eventually led to the breakup of the Soviet Union

US-Russian relations, a historical perspective of shifting perceptions

Jun 21, 2016

A new book, which takes a detailed historical view of Russian Studies in the U.S. and American Studies in Russia, could help policymakers in Moscow and Washington understand each other better

22 years after the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire, historical battle persists

May 13, 2016

Resolving the current conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is impossible without understanding the complex history of the region and the specific grievances of Armenia and Azerbaijan

Remembering Chernobyl, 30 years later

Apr 26, 2016

First-person accounts of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster form a unique oral history of one of the worst catastrophes in human history

Churchill's famous Fulton speech, 70 years later

Mar 7, 2016

Today’s state of international affairs can hardly be compared to the era of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat to the West and Churchill warned of a “shadow hanging over Europe”

What do the Kremlin and the Russian opposition have in common?

Jan 19, 2016

Leonid Gozman on the challenges of the Russian opposition and the Kremlin’s inner circle

RD Insight: There is no Cold War between Russia and US

Nov 12, 2015

Russia Direct talked to John M. Evans, the former director of the Russian Affairs Office at the U.S. Department of State (2002-2004) about the lessons Russia and the U.S. should draw from current turbulence

Three historical principles of Russian foreign policy for Washington

Aug 13, 2015

History shows that Moscow won't observe any economic or security arrangement that the U.S. or its European allies craft without the participation of Russia. So, Washington should take greater steps to integrate, rather than isolate, Moscow

80 years later, the perpetrators of Stalin's 'Great Terror' revealed

25 years after liberalization, Russians are cautious of democratic reforms

Why the 1991 Soviet coup failed

US-Russian relations, a historical perspective of shifting perceptions

22 years after the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire, historical battle persists

Remembering Chernobyl, 30 years later

Churchill's famous Fulton speech, 70 years later

What do the Kremlin and the Russian opposition have in common?

RD Insight: There is no Cold War between Russia and US

Three historical principles of Russian foreign policy for Washington

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