One of the most well-known figures of those regions around this time must be Stenka Razin. Terrorising the Caucasus, Don region, and northern Persia, this pirate-turned-rebel leader led one of the ...

Mr. Putin may have accepted the invitation to Alaska, but not to negotiate in good faith — he wanted to buy time. His ...

After the fall of the Tsar in 1917, Russia descended into chaos. The Bolsheviks fought to seize control of a collapsing empire, while the White Army, foreign powers, and nationalist groups tried to ...

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will attend a CIS summit in Tajikistan on October 10, where leaders of member countries will express their support for him. In practice, however, many of them have ...

The Battle of Navarino, one of the most important battles in Greece’s War of Independence, took place on October 20, 1827.

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

At a previous Trump-Putin summit in Alaska in August, Putin didn’t budge from his demands and has raised objections about ...

Russia is “planning the use of nuclear weapons” and practising a clash with NATO forces along its tense border with Poland.

I might say, ’Look: if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks,” Trump told reporters aboard ...

The series, set in 1805, follows Pierre, Natasha and Andrei in the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th century, desperate ...

The Russian attack on Kharkiv in Ukraine’s northeast hit the city’s main hospital, forcing the evacuation of 50 patients, regional head Oleh Syniehubov said. The attack’s main targets were energy ...