President Vladimir Putin and his propagandists have tried to portray the aggression in Ukraine as a people’s war since the beginning. It didn’t work. The country has grown tired, even as so-called ...

The corrupt mayor of a Russian town, who is awaiting a visit from a dignitary, gives the royal treatment to a clerk that he mistakenly believes is “The Government Inspector” in Ukrainian playwright ...

Russian comedian Denis Chuzhoi was one hour into his recent stand-up show -- which painted a grim picture of a Russia plagued by corruption and suicide -- when he turned his attention to the man whom ...