To mark 25 years of Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Russia expert Keir Giles of Chatham House about three key moments in which Putin has exerted power.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian for the signing of a broad ...

One of the greatest Russian ballet dancers of his generation ... He claimed to have no memory of the sequence of events preceding it, however, but later told reporters it was “no accident ...

Their leaders were experienced military commanders They controlled huge areas of Russia They had the Bolsheviks surrounded They had the active support of foreign countries, which intervened in the ...

The history of what we now think of as Russia started in Kyiv more than 1,000 years ago when Viking warrior-merchants came down from the north and founded Kyivan Rus, the first East Slavic state ...

All those things might have happened regardless of U.S. policy. The crushing weight of a thousand years of Russian history can’t be lifted so easily. I asked Merry if the world would look ...

The designation of the US as an enemy state by Russia is a first in their diplomatic history. According to Agentstvo ... This decision comes in response to recent events, including the prevention ...

Russia and Iran Have a Troubled History Despite Their Current Alliance MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact ...