Russia closed parts of its borders with Finland, Estonia, and Latvia—all NATO members—on July 1. As U.S.-mediated peace negotiations to end the Ukraine war stall and Ukraine’s counteroffensive ...

Russia and Ukraine share deep historical ties, but those connections have also fueled division and mistrust. Over the years, ...

Since the early 1990s, the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, located on the Amur River, has steadily reemerged as one of Russia’s most important “border trade hubs.” Sitting directly across from the ...