As the chances of President Donald Trump’s peace deal in Ukraine seemingly recede, attention turns back to the question of Vladimir Putin and his war aims. What does the Russian president want to ...

Russia’s attempt to colonize the Americas is one of the most overlooked failures in imperial history. Isolated settlements, brutal winters, and collapsing trade networks pushed the colonies to the ...

Eight-millimeter home movies and statist hymns from the Soviet past haunt Robin Hessman’s documentary of a contemporary Russia pocked with international logos in which five Muscovites recall their ...

A Rising Fury follows a Ukrainian couple in love, tracing the roots of Russia’s war from the 2013 Kyiv uprising to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. To me, Ukraine is the Nightwatch of democracy.

For Ekaterina Yakovleva, Head of Documentary Broadcasting at RT, film is “people’s diplomacy” — a bridge of understanding between nations. Speaking to Ahram Online during the Time of Heroes forum in ...

Controversy arose at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5 following the screening of a documentary film that attempts to humanize Russian soldiers involved in the war against Ukraine. Russian-Canadian ...

Main entrance of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. (Photo: J. P. Fagerback - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25805489 ...

“This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history," said filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, accepting Best Documentary Feature for a soul-shaking account of the country's first three weeks under siege. The ...