Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments-from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut-to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide...

ina Gordeeva is one of the most famous independent journalists in Russia. This is a book about grief. The grief of people with different political views and positions, from different cities of Ukraine and Russia, with different destinies, who were united by a common misfortune - war. Gordeeva loves her heroes, and out of trust and love, documentary evidence of this terrible time is born....

How did we end up on February 24, 2022? How did this even become possible? The Russian historical narrative is built on myths: about the unity of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, about certain ancestral Russian territories, about the traitor Mazepa and the terrible Banderaites and about the greatness of the beautiful invincible empire. These myths were formed and supported by Russian...

The successes of conservative populism are usually associated with the triumph of affects over rational political behavior: after all, only an unenlightened individual subject to irrational fears can doubt that the modern world is developing in the right direction. Unexpectedly, the passive conservatism of moderation and reasonable compromise gave way to the pressure of the conservatism of...

Leading Russian yearbook for American studies.

Leading thinkers of the Russian Academy of Sciences present their analysis on the ongoing globalization and transformation of the world and the newest theories that seek to explain this process.

Sotsiologicheskoe issledovanie v sel'skikh raionakh Khanty-Mansiiskogo Avtonomnogo okruga.

Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.