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“What is harder to explain is how the image fits into the larger picture of what has been happening in Russia in the past few days.”
Julia Ioffe, explaining, in a post for the New Yorker, how her photograph of a young Russian boy facing a row of riot police, went viral. See TIME’s latest...
Four Hundred Years of Xenophobia: Vladimir Putin, 1612 and All That
1612 means little to the Anglophone world. But during the last time Vladimir Putin was president, it became enshrined in an annual Russian ritual. Few of us...
What Lies Beneath Russia's Latest Round of Protests
Has the Russian Spring -- so vibrant with huge demonstrations in the winter -- been revived? Even after Vladimir Putin was inaugurated on Monday, protesters,...
Discovery of ‘World’s Largest’ Dinosaur Eggs Hatches Doubt
Scientists from Russia’s Chechen State University claim to have unearthed at least 40 of the world’s largest “dinosaur eggs,” measuring up to 3 feet in diameter...
Photo Essays
Russia: Protests, Rallies and Darth Vader
After a narrow win by the Prime Minister's party, United Russia, demonstrators take to the streets in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Photos: Russia Launches a Rocket in a Snowstorm
A Russian and American crew leave from the launching pad in Baikonur, Kazakshtan on a mission to reman the International Space Station
Time.com Specials
Georgia-Russia Crisis
Tired of being treated like a second-rate power, Moscow is out to prove it is still boss. How did the situation get to this point?
Person of the Year 2007
His final year as Russia's President has been his most successful yet. At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize—if not always...
Articles from Around the Web
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Riot Police Break Up Anti- Putin Tent Protest
A court ordered the police to break up an encampment in a Moscow park where people protesting Vladimir V. Putin's return to the presidency have carried out a sit-in for almost a...
Ukraine Premier Bristles at Russia, EU Criticism
Ukraine's prime minister said the country is trying to shake off Russia's influence by increasing natural-gas production, but also bristled at criticism from the EU. ...
India Ink: In BRICS Nations, Journalists at Risk
In Brazil, Russia and India, killers of journalists go free. ...
Romney's View of Russia Sparks Debate
Many Democrats, some Republicans and the Russians themselves suggest that Mitt Romney is stuck in a cold war mind-set. ...
