Gerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have offered an unprecedented glimpse into the scope and...

Ukraine is on the front line of a war between freedom and tyranny, says chess grandmaster and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov. In this blistering call to action, he traces Vladimir Putin's rise to power and details his own path from...

New ReviewTop Kremlin official's chilling nuclear warning as treaty due to expireCredit: Dmitry Medvedev's Secretariat

The Panama Papers show how the world's most powerful people hide their money in offshore bank accounts to prevent paying taxes or suffering the consequences of government actions.

How Vladimir Putin implemented his blueprint for controlling every aspect of Russian society.

Ukraine’s forces have managed to repel Russian forces from several parts of the country, liberating towns and cities across the country from Russian control. But as Russian soldiers have retreated, Ukraine has found areas destroyed by...

Ukraine’s forces have managed to repel Russian forces from several parts of the country, liberating towns and cities across the country from Russian control. But as Russian soldiers have retreated, Ukraine has found areas destroyed by...

From the opening days of Russia's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the city of Mariupol has frequently been in the headlines. Through shelling, bombings and incursions by Russian soldiers, the city has been under constant bombardment,...

Independent TV exclusive: This is what a 50km-long refugee crisis looks like

The civilians defending Ukraine | On The Ground

Ari Weinzweig, co-founding partner of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses in Ann Arbor, Michigan, shares his journey from studying Russian history and anarchism at the University of Michigan to co-founding a local food business in 1982...

The Russian scandal swirling around President Donald Trump makes one thing clear: we have entered one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our Republic. Michael Flynn — Trump’s now-disgraced former National Security Advisor — is...

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, is preparing to defend itself against a major Russian invasion. The city is important because of its size, power sources like the Kyiv dam, and key bridges and airfields that are crucial in the fight....

The U.S.’s first female Secretary of State used her collection of brooches to get her point across when meeting with foreign leaders, a practice that became known as “Pin Diplomacy.”

With tensions escalating along the border with Russia, Luke Harding visits troops in Ukraine's Donbas region to gauge the mood ahead of a possible invasion. The war here has continued since 2014, when pro-Russian separatists seized...

As Vladimir Putin wages a bloody and unrelenting war in Ukraine, Guardian foreign correspondent Luke Harding examines Putin's unlikely path to the Russian presidency. From his humble beginnings in St Petersburg to his mysterious and...

NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a coalition of democratic capitalist countries from Europe and North America. It remains perhaps the single biggest deterrent against nuclear war today.

In which John explores historical and political context to understand what caused the Russian government's invasion of Ukraine, and how we arrived at this awful now. There is a LOT of misinformation in comments, so why not read directly...

9 November 1989 was one of the most significant dates in 20th century history. The Berlin Wall fell, changing the entire geopolitical situation and marking the start of the decline of Russia's world standing. Author Rory MacLean was...

Donald Trump has had a huge impact on not just American Politics since his Inaguration, but on the entire world stage. From Twitter politics to that business with North Korea, here's 10 Ways Donald Trump has changed the world.

America and Russia have pulled out of the INF, a cold war-era weapons treaty. Why is this significant and what does this mean for global stability?

When the Russian submarine Kursk sank in 2000, it was a conspiracy theorist's dream come true. Immediately, conflicting stories started pouring in from official sources, ranging from a US submarine ramming the Kursk to a potential...

Russia is accused of trying to influence the US election, which led to the Trump presidency. In a rare interview one of the Soviet Union's highest-ranking KGB spies talks about the long-standing practice of subverting Western democracy.

Vladimir Putin just won his fourth term as president of the Russian Federation. Let's talk about who this guy is and if we should be worried (we should)