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Mikhail Zygar, a Russian author and the founding editor of an independent television station called TV Rain, has written a book, The Empire Must Die, that, among other things, tells the story of ...

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 ...

The name alone carries a sinister weight – Eurussian Empire – an alliance of two once historically opposing forces, Europe ...

The Russian empire, otherwise known as Imperial Russia, was the final period of the Russian monarchy lasting from 1721 until its dissolution in 1917.

Even his early biographies, like the one Voltaire wrote about him in History of the Russian Empire under the reign of Peter ...

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’s career as an empire—in the forms of imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation—began in the 14th century with the relentless expansion of the Grand Duchy of ...

The Vatican sought to defend Pope Francis on Tuesday after he sparked fury in Ukraine by praising Russia's imperial rulers — a history President Vladimir Putin has invoked to justify his ongoing ...

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian empire continued in a rather peculiar form as the Soviet Union. When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded in 1922, ...