Those numbers we hear about—Vladimir Putin’s approval rating at a whopping 80% — mostly come from the Levada Center. It is Russia’s only independent pollster. The rate of response to its outreach is about 27% and its polls are conducted in person. Even if
How is Vladimir Putin hanging on to power, having dragged his people into such a disastrous war? I ask one of Russia’s most well-known political scientists. “That a good, straightforward American-style question,” Ekaterina Schulmann, currently a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy
Russia’s wartime economy How has Russia’s economy faired under sanctions? Fox News correspondent Amy Kellogg interviewed a Russian expert on how the Kremlin has dealt with the crippling sanctions. There was hope the unprecedented and severe Western sanctions slapped on Russia after
One year into Russia’s war in Ukraine and the media is full of anniversary stories detailing all the geopolitical dynamics of the situation. For me, looking back at our trips to Ukraine this past year, it’s the personal stories that stand out…as well
A mother’s desperate words Fox News correspondent Amy Kellogg reports on the story of Lyudmila Rudenska who survived the Russian siege of Mariupol. So much for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s line that life under the administration of Kyiv had been sheer hell
As Russian President Vladimir Putin stood Tuesday before the Federal Assembly, members of which rose in unison several times to applaud their leader’s full-throated support for Russia’s war efforts, its patriots and its troops, I wondered where all the sons of the
He played his cards very carefully, cautiously and kept the faith. Mir-Hossein Mousavi, one of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, dutiful foot-soldier and one of its first prime ministers stayed the course. He had a near comeback in 2009. Embracing a
You will meet people in Italy who are actually pro-Russia. Or at least ready to lay some blame on the United States and/or NATO for provoking Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine, as if somehow absolving the Russian president. Largely, however, such positions
ISKENDERUN, Turkey – It hung in the air of the streets of the Turkish city of Iskenderun Monday. The smell of death. One week after twin earthquakes rocked the region, dramatic rescues were getting infrequent and instead replaced by a grim recovery of bodies crushed
Iran nuclear deal standoff Fox News correspondent Amy Kellogg interviews a former State department official and an advisor to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team on the latest news surrounding the JCPOA. Former President Trump dumped the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 because he