After a significant wait, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 7 congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the U.S.

Russian stock investors expressed cautious optimism following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential elections even as Vladimir Putin withheld congratulations to the victor. Putin’s ...

Full text of the 2023 Russian Foreign Policy Concept (in Russian). Full text of the 2023 Russian Foreign Policy Concept (in English). 2020 Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on ...

Russia Matters is a project launched in 2016 by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and made possible with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has had many opportunities to comment on U.S.-Russian relations, Russia itself and America’s policies toward it. This review, last updated ahead of Trump’s first ...

Incorrect: While hydrocarbons play an outsized role in Moscow’s federal budget and its nuclear weapons may figure in GDP, Russia’s economy is more diverse than that, with oil and gas making up just ...

Like all but one of Levada’s previous polls on Ukraine since October 2022, the September 2024 poll shows that the percentage of respondents favoring an end to Russia’s so-called special military ...

Areas of expertise include: arms control, Russian nuclear posture, NATO and European security.

Post-Soviet Reaction to Trump’s Win: Stocks Rally in Russia, But Officials in Moscow, Kyiv Don’t Hold Their Breath ...

Areas of research include: foreign policy, security, international law, international norms, regionalism, intervention, conflict and military. Countries and regions ...