Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] ...

The Decembrists were Russia’s first revolutionaries, challenging autocracy in the early 19th century. This series explores ...

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian for the signing of a broad ...

when he married the Princess Sophia, niece of Constantine Palæologus, the last of the Greek emperors, and assumed the double-headed eagle of the Byzantine Empire as the symbol of the Russian.

In a word, visualize the component human elements of the far-flung empire of the Tsars and you will begin to appreciate what Kipling meant when he wrote that Russia must be considered, not as the ...

TASS/. The position of the countries believing that Russia’s goal is to revive the empire and to annex territories "is fundamentally erroneous," as Russia does not aspire to world dominance ...

TASS/. A dress named 'The Crown of the Russian Empire' has been selected as the national costume for Russian contestant Anna Linnikova during the Miss Universe 2022 beauty pageant in the United ...

U.S.-led sanctions have hit Russian oil exports. Moscow has accused Ukraine of trying to strike its last gas pipeline into ...

Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia basically hopeless, many Jewish families left ...