Putin and Russia have one thing in common: violence. Russian history is essentially a history of violent undertakings in the vast region known as Russia. In the same fashion, Putin’s life has been, ...

Novgorod Counter Histories around 1700. The Story about Ivan the Terrible’s Raid of Novgorod Reconsidered: 1st Contribution to the Forum: <em>Ivan the Terrible and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push for a swift end to the war in Ukraine, fears are mounting that Kyiv could be ...

Russia celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the second world war on May 9. But while the cameras will focus on the assembled ranks of elderly war survivors watching the military ...

The Washington Post's David Herszenhorn, a specialist on the region's politics, spearheads the Post's “Russia, Remastered” series. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to explore the dramatic domestic ...

“You don’t even exist!” Characters in Russian fiction are always insulting each other in this way. They call each other zeroes, nothings, nonentities. The hero of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground ...

Russian leaders have increasingly used museums and their digital collections to show propaganda about Slavic unity and deny Ukrainian identity since the 2022 invasion, analysis shows. Published in the ...