Andrew C. Kuchins is senior fellow and director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Is Vladimir Putin having his Brezhnev moment? President Obama’s ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plaque commemorating late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was restored to the facade of his former apartment building on Thursday, a sign of nostalgia in line with President ...

Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine brings back memories of 1968, when Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sent troops into supposedly independent Czechoslovakia. The Soviet troops "liberated" Czechs from a ...

Anton Milaev is said to have joined the Russian military as a combat engineer in autumn 2025.

A new leader comes to the Kremlin in a time of chaos, replacing a bumbling and erratic predecessor. He loves to hunt and drive fast cars. He ushers in an era of stability and relative prosperity, ...

Kazakhstan holds a vast geological archive from the Soviet era that could aid in supplying critical minerals to the West.

Four decades ago, Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR into what many Soviets called the “era of stagnation.” Vladimir Putin is taking Russia down a similar path. The USSR tried to recover by turning to ...

Saless is the publisher of the book originally released in 2021. It has been translated by Bijan Ashtari. Leonid Brezhnev was the leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a term of leadership ...

Brezhnev relaxing in Moscow in 1971 (ITAR-TASS) MOSCOW, December 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The history books will not remember Leonid Brezhnev as the most influential of Soviet leaders. His rule, between ...