Vladimir Putin revives imperial rhetoric and lays claim to historic ‘Novorossiya' - but suffers a setback as Moscow loses influence over key strategic ally, Azerbaijan ...

Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian-backed ...

How did Russia become the largest country in the world? In this first part of our detailed series, we trace the early history ...

A dry wind rushes through the meanders of destroyed streets, bringing up the acrid smell of smoke laden with gasoline. In the ...

MUSCAT: Within the frameworks of 'The Russian Seasons,' the National Museum inaugurated the 'Neo-Russian Style' exhibition ...

Russia’s summer offensive signals Putin’s determination to overwhelm Ukraine using mass drone warfare, motorcycle assaults, and Chinese tech support, while betting on scale, endurance, and Western ...

President Trump’s surprise attack on Iran may have temporarily improved his approval ratings, but it has also led to the ...

Former political prisoners explain the different ways the dissident movement within the Soviet bloc (1922–1991) took shape.

The country's investigative committee accused the archbishop and 13 others of plotting to overthrow the government of Prime ...

In the preface of this volume the author remarks that the stormy course of events in Russia since the war has distracted attention from the history of Russia during the war itself, and that this ...

Over the years, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin repeatedly warned that Moscow would not tolerate continuing NATO’s “Drang nach Osten” (“drive to the East”), particularly Ukraine’s membership and the ...

Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would ...