For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia’s shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged ...

By hosting a pavilion again this year, Russia continues its efforts to shed its status as a cultural and sporting pariah.

Even if Moscow was never formally banned from the most important contemporary art competition after its large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, this return - which coincides with a certain ...

Civilians gather to receive drinking water distributed by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in Mariupol on May 27, 2022, after the seaside city in eastern Ukraine fell to Moscow's troops. (AP ...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 didn't just hurt their standing in the international community as a whole. It also did a lot of damage to their standing in the eyes of the International Olympic ...