How Yura Borisov of ‘Anora’ Went From the Kremlin to the Oscars
On the face of it, the Russian actor Yura Borisov was an unlikely actor to land an Oscar nomination in 2025. Just a few years ago he played a guileless…
Emboldened Kremlin Steps Up Efforts to Seize Businesses in Russia
After the fall of Communism, Russia ushered in capitalism by selling off billions of dollars in state assets. Now, 30 years later, the Russian government is stepping up a wartime…
Trump Elevates Kremlin Talking Points, a Familiar Pattern From His First Term
It started in the spring of last year. The Kremlin added a new rhetorical weapon to its regular barrages against President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. “We are aware that the…
Kremlin Message to Trump: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia
The Russian government’s top investment manager, who has Harvard and McKinsey credentials and fluent English, brought a simple printout to Tuesday’s talks with the Trump administration in Saudi Arabia. Its…
Even in Death, Navalny Is Seen by the Kremlin as an Enduring Threat
Six months after the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny died in a Russian prison above the Arctic Circle, Konstantin A. Kotov woke up to find his Moscow apartment under siege.…
Kremlin Says U.S. Will Release a Russian in American Custody
A Russian imprisoned in the United States will be freed “in the coming days” in exchange for the release this week of the American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, the Kremlin said…
Kremlin Chokes YouTube Service, but Russians Find Ways Around It
He blocked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. He signed a censorship law that led TikTok to disable its functions. President Vladimir V. Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia…
Chastened by Past Wars, Kremlin Tries to Elevate Its Veterans
When Ilya Rusinov returned to the Russian work force after rehabilitating a vertebra damaged in the Ukraine war, his first job was teaching in a school. But he had also…
Britain Says Russian Spy Ship Returned to U.K. Waters in Sign of Kremlin Threat
Britain on Wednesday warned that it faced a growing threat of aggression from Russia, asserting that a Russian spy ship had passed by the English coast for the second time…