Words matter in seeking to explain the actions of states and individuals and to divine the response that would best protect the national (or business or personal) interest. Complexities abound, and ...

Boris Nemtsov, center, and other opposition activists attend a rally at Red Square on April 8, 2012 in Moscow. Senior Correspondent On Saturday the Kremlin trotted out a favorite piece of Russian ...

Russia President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Ukraine of carrying out what he described as "yet another large-scale provocation" at the Russian border. "As you know, the Kiev regime has ...

North Korea on Thursday condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution criticizing its human rights record, ...

Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny may face a new charge, this time of "disrupting" activities at the correctional colony where he is incarcerated, according to his lawyer Vadim ...

Provocation is not an innocent act. Under specific circumstances, provocation constitutes a tort or even a crime, especially when it deliberately generates a violent response. There is no binding ...

Recent forays by North Korean fishing vessels across the disputed Northern Limit Line and DPRK Vice Minister Park Kil-yon’s statement that a “spark” could set off nuclear war on the Korean peninsula ...

A PROVOCATION....In my ongoing effort to embarrass myself in public, I'm going to revisit the subject of the feared Mideast meltdown that might follow in the wake of an American withdrawal from Iraq.