Mr. Nobody Against Putin” provides a unique window into the mindset that Vladimir Putin’s Russia has generated.

Ukrainian figure skater Kyrylo Marsak was exhausted last summer as he trained for the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games.

Ilia Malinin comes from a family of Olympic skaters, including his parents Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov. Though they ...

We are the only city in the world with so-called metro schools. Those are underground schools. We have modified seven ...

Russia has taken tens of thousands of children, who end up in reeducation facilities, military schools, or illegal adoptions. Sashko Radchuk hasn’t seen his mother for nearly four years. One month ...

The Director’ By Daniel Kehlmann Summit Books, 2025. Garbo to Goebbels, Daniel Kehlmann’s historical novel “The Director” is the story of Austrian film director G.W. Pa ...

Kyiv — On a bitterly cold Wednesday in Kyiv's Heroiv Dnipra neighborhood, Mariana Kiriluk, a foot doctor in her late-thirties, didn't know what to do with her ten-year-old son Zahar. Schools in the ...

After a week of escalating rhetoric over Greenland, Donald Trump says he has now secured "total access" to the Arctic island. This is why that region is so important.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In this epic but sprightly history, journalist and critic Pinkham (Black Square) explores the central role forests have played in the Russian cultural imagination. Noting that “long after western ...

The Russian economy has been dealing with growing headwinds this year: unruly inflation, a ballooning budget deficit – due in part to massive military spending – and shrinking revenues from oil and ...

KAM'YANKA, UKRAINE - OCTOBER 24: A Ukrainian flag flies above the ruins of buildings destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian occupying forces. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) ...