The one person on the planet who never realized that the awards and the honors were a sham, a source of ridicule rather than pride, was Secretary Brezhnev himself, who treasured his absurd array of ...

Even those who do not approve of him generally consider Vladimir Putin as highly successful in foreign policy. These successes include Moscow’s taking South Ossetia and Abkhazia away from Georgia in ...

Putin’s covert support for Donald Trump has not been the first time Russia aspired to influence an American presidential election. Forty-two years ago, a Russian leader privately pledged his ...

When I learned from my friend that he would be producing a movie on Ronald Reagan’s life and that he wanted me for the role of Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union, my ego thought "oh a ...

So, Vladimir Putin just had another Leonid Brezhnev moment. Last year, the current Kremlin leader surpassed the longtime Soviet ruler in longevity in power. And now, after winning a fourth term with ...

A new leader comes to the Kremlin in a time of chaos, replacing a bumbling and erratic predecessor. He loves to hunt and drive fast cars. He ushers in an era of stability and relative prosperity, ...

The president’s insistence on projecting good health echoes the fatal denial of late Soviet leaders. In the late 1970s, after suffering a series of strokes and other medical crises that left him ...

Andrew C. Kuchins is senior fellow and director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Is Vladimir Putin having his Brezhnev moment? President Obama’s ...

The grey society over which he presided has been replaced by colourful, often brash capitalism. Yet many Russians remain nostalgic for the law and order of Brezhnev's Soviet Union. What tends to be ...