For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that ...

Russia is a Specter that Will Haunt the West for the Foreseeable Future: Once the artillery and glide bombs stop falling in Ukraine, Russia will still pose a significant threat to the West. How much ...

Mikhail Zygar is a Russian journalist who publicly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and fled into exile days later. Before that, he was the founding editor in chief of TV Rain ...

A devastating naval defeat 118 years ago blunted a major European power's ambitions in Asia and marked the emergence of a newly dominant Asian military. The lopsided clash between Imperial Japan and ...

A relevant decree, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, will allocate funds for the purpose to the Department of Foreign Property of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the ...

When 100,000 Russian troops stormed into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the world rushed to pin it all on one man: Vladimir Putin. We labeled him the villain, the dictator, the madman. A year later, ...

The UK Government is set to proscribe two neo-Nazi groups in the form of the Maniacs Murder Club and the Russian Imperial Movement, alongside Palestine Action, calling into question the motives of the ...

Harold Macmillan, perhaps the shrewdest British prime minister in the second half of the 20th century, recognized before many of his countrymen that Britain would henceforth have a diminished role in ...