Excellent analysis by @paulsonne.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

A few thoughts on Putin’s very good week, for @paulsonne.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

NEW: Putin is embracing China more than ever. His intelligence service is suspicious. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...

The document also shows the Russians have penetrated WeChat, and that Putin approved a new counterintelligence program to fend off the Chinese called 'Entente-4' days before the invasion of Ukraine. W/ @paulsonne.bsky.social, Anton Troianovski, Aaron Krolik, and others.

President Alexander Stubb of Finland, who has emerged as a prominent voice of Europe’s smaller nations on Russia’s war against Ukraine, says in an interview he doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate his country once endured.

Imagine learning from a prison in Belarus that Elon Musk is shutting down the U.S. media outlet where your work covering an authoritarian government landed you in jail for three years. Meet Andrei Kuznechyk: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

One thing was clear after yesterday’s call between Putin and Trump: Putin didn’t cede any ground apart from something the Kremlin already saw as advantageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/w...

The phone call between Putin and Trump has ended. Everyone now waiting on a statement from the White House (or on Truth Social).

To break from US and defend the Baltics, Europe would need minimum “1,400 tanks, 2,000 infantry fighting vehicles and 700 artillery pieces. This is more combat power than currently exists in the French, German, Italian and British land forces combined.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

It has been three years to the day since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. With Trump ushering in a new world, the Russian leader has reached his “moment of truth.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

Russian authorities are still zealously prosecuting people with even faint links to Navalny a year after his death, showing how much the Kremlin still fears his followers. by @paulsonne.bsky.social @nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

For eight months, Vladimir Putin was pressing an obscure legalistic argument about Zelensky’s illegitimacy. Then, on Wednesday, it came from Donald Trump. Welcome to the new (old) world. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

18 years ago, in Munich, Putin demanded rolled back American influence in Europe and a world order better suited to Moscow. Now he might have an American president willing to give it to him. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

Trump team seeking a grand bargain in which Lukashenko's Belarus would release a slew of political prisoners and the US would ease sanctions on Belarusian banks and exports of potash. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

They showed up at his apartment to arrest him. His crime: donating $30 to Aleksei Navalny‘s anti-corruption group three years prior. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

Even in death, the Kremlin sees Navalny as an enduring threat. How journalists, lawyers and everyday Russians have been prosecuted for links to him in the past year: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

"This was definitely a setup." The story of Marc Fogel and his imprisonment in Russia. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/w...

From Moscow to Budapest, Tehran to San Salvador, leaders with an authoritarian bent are praising Elon Musk’s dismantling of USAID, long a thorn in their side for promoting democracy and rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...