An amateur actor who plays Vladimir Putin in a satirical movie about the Russian leader says a Kremlin goon tried to bribe ...

Speaking seconds before the turn of the century, just before midnight on December 31, 1999, Putin vowed: ‘Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of the media, property rights – these ...

When Boris Yeltsin suddenly resigned as Russia’s first post-Communist president on New Year’s Eve, 1999, his country seemed ...

COMMENT: Crisis has aided the Russian strongman’s regime stability far more than any index of economic success, writes ...

When he became acting president of Russia on the last day of the 20th Century, the former spy was an enigma to many. Who is the "man of deeds, not words"?

The powerful leave lasting imprints on the lives of their nations and peoples. These imprints come in various forms—some requiring entire eras to heal the wounds inflicted by their creators. History ...

On New Year’s Eve, 1999, Boris Yeltsin handed over Russia’s presidency to an unknown figure—Vladimir Putin—with one request: ...

On December 19, a conference was held in Madrid, with Boris Cimorra, a Spanish writer and journalist born in Moscow, as the ...

The headline act for 2025 is the FT’s man of the year for 2024, Donald Trump, as he returns to the White House after his ...

Editorial: If the last 25 years have taught us anything, it is exactly who the Russian president is – and what he is capable of ...

That's because President Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has had devastating consequences. Primarily for Ukraine, ...

Something unusual happened at the movies for me at the very start of 2024. An imperturbable film buff that I consider myself, for the first time in my life I wa ...