Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. ... Putin recognizes this lack of attention and lack of strategy and is trying to play on the contradictions.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is supposedly headed to Belarus, but Putin’s troubles aren’t over. ... Robertson told Vox. “[Putin] has spent the last 15 years trying to coup-proof this regime.

But Putin’s follow-up speech on Monday didn’t exactly promise punishment to Prigozhin (whom he did not name) or Wagner fighters. Putin said the uprising failed because all of Russian society ...

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: ... Vladimir Putin reappeared today at a meeting with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev in St. Petersburg.

Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July ...

Why is Putin attacking Ukraine? He told us. In a recent speech, the Russian president laid out the nationalist ideas that animate him — and helped cause the Ukraine crisis.

The Putin paradox: he’s brutally repressive — and incredibly popular. We ignore history, and evidence, if we conclude Putin’s hyper-nationalist authoritarian regime rules through fear alone.

That Putin would name-check Soros in his press conference with Trump is no accident. Putin has sounded the dog whistle on anti-Semitism before, when on the spot about hacking. Now he’s doing it ...

Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July ...

Putin’s “Nazi” rhetoric reveals his terrifying war aims in Ukraine Russia’s president says he wants the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine. That actually means regime change.

But despite Russia’s much-investigated interference on his behalf in the 2016 election, and despite his frequent expressions of affection for Putin, Trump’s actual policies during his first ...

Still, Putin’s remarks were a stark reminder that nuclear weapons aren’t just the boogeymen of a bygone age, but remain a key part of the security order that emerged after the end of World War II.