The Russian president’s supposed popularity is a myth. He is terrified of real electoral competition.

Over 300 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported Sunday. The sudden ...

The European Union must focus on a new sanctions package to suffocate Russia's economy and force President Vladimir Putin to ...

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of fierce Kremlin critic and opposition politician Alexei Navalny who died in February in an Arctic penal colony, called for the release of all political prisoners.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered a glimpse inside his luxurious living quarters for the first time in an interview recorded for state media.

It is nearly 12 months since Mr He Xiangdong, China's ambassador to Ireland, took a sponsored page in the Irish Examiner to ...

The Charles F. Kettering Foundation, which focuses on the needs of democracy worldwide and works to advance inclusive democracies around the globe, today announces the two inaugural winners of the ...

Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, who died in a penal colony in February last year aged 47, was posthumously honoured last night with the prestigious Book of ...

Congress is once again floating the idea of using projected oil and gas revenues from leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to offset rising deficits. But new lease sales in the Refuge ...

That's why an international project led by NAU researchers, which has resulted in the first high-resolution maps of plant biomass and woody plant dominance in the Arctic, is so important. It ...

Arctic warming, occurring up to four times faster than the global average, is driving extensive shifts in plant communities, with new species appearing or existing ones disappearing in nearly 60% ...