Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

Russian leaders comments signal that there will be difficult negotiations ahead that could frustrate President Donald Trump’s ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he didn’t support an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine, calling for more discussion on a ...