This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2023 under the headline “How Putin’s war is causing global instability” Share Reuse this content ...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Wednesday he might not win in a March presidential election in the first round, and said Russia could face political instability as a result.

Putin stresses rising global instability, ... Slovakia’s parliament on June 5 passed a resolution asking the government to refrain from supporting new anti-Russian sanctions.

Vladimir Putin said he would not plunge Russia into stagnation in a third presidential term but offered stability for what he warned would be a long and painful period of global turbulence.

Yet for now, it looks as though Putin has successfully given himself a further 12 years in office and is aggressively flexing Russia’s economic and military muscle to project influence and strength ...

Alternatively, if Putin is deposed and a scramble for power ensues, Biden might face the prospect that Russia’s nuclear stockpile could slip from the existing government’s control.

Putin, Long the Sower of Instability, Is Now Surrounded by It. ... And ahead of Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary elections last Sunday, government critics were keeping an eye on Belarus, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the world risks sliding deeper into instability as the coronavirus pandemic combines with global rivalries and other international tensions.

Putin’s reappointment of Mikhail Mishustin, 58, as prime minister is part of a planned government reshuffle in the wake of the autocrat’s inauguration earlier this week for a third consecutive term.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the world risks sliding deeper into instability as the coronavirus pandemic combines with global rivalries and other international tensions.

On Jan. 15, it became clear to the people of Russia that they would never again have the opportunity to vote for Vladimir Putin. It also became clear that they would live with him for the ...

American politicians and former diplomats are openly speculating about Vladimir Putin’s stability. Figuring out the Russian leader’s state of mind has become a top priority of the US government.