The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we ...

Russian Czar Nicholas ii commissioned a photographer, one that pioneered colourized photography, to travel through the ...

Most Russians seem unwilling to give up the privileges the government gives them at the expense of the country's ethnic minorities, says Botakoz Kassymbekova, a historian focusing on Eastern Europe at ...

Russia’s invasion of Georgia has less to do with South Ossetia than with a Russia that never reconciled itself to losing an empire — or to being treated like a second-rate power all these years.

The creation of Russia is one of the most complex and far reaching historical stories in Eurasia. Across more than a millennium, diverse tribes, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pushed his neighboring allies to support his invasion of Ukraine. Photo by MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images Some critics of our support for Ukraine ...

(Bloomberg) -- Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union. An order from the ...

The U.S. and the Soviet Union were still waging the Cold War, immersed in concerns about arms control and nuclear proliferation, when President Ronald Reagan, on March 8, 1983, warned against “the ...

During the quarter century of its formal existence, the Moscow School of Civic Education did not have a campus, a syllabus, or professors. The school instead ran seminars for politicians and ...