Almost from the moment Vladimir Putin announced the start of Russia’s “special military operation” against Ukraine, it was perceived to be Putin’s war — a war conceived and guided by one man’s obsessions, personal grudges, and idiosyncratic reading — or invention — of history. While that is true, it could not be fought without the…
A nylon fabric heart is embroidered with the word “pain” in languages of the nationalities of Russia. This is the third work of the project “I hear the voices of Russia” by Alisa Gorshenina, who is also known as Alice Hualice. She lives in the Urals town of Nizhny Tagil, which has a population of…
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise trip to Mariupol, the Kremlin said Sunday, his first visit to territory captured from Ukraine since the start of Moscow’s invasion. Just hours after Putin visited Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the peninsula’s annexation, video distributed by the Kremlin showed him landing by helicopter in Mariupol,…