The Chinese leader has recently visited the Russian capital, where he behaved like the host and leader of a major power that ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – ...

Russia is no longer a great power. But it wants to be. These two sentences encapsulate the root cause of Russia’s ongoing war ...