Catherine wasn't called “The Great” for nothing. Though she was one of the most enlightened women in the world, behind closed ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

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

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation ... it was not until Stalin came to power that a Russian ruler once more tried to do business with philosophers. Both Catherine and Stalin, ...

One of only three Russian rulers to be awarded the sobriquet ‘the Great’, Catherine, like Peter the Great, polarises biographers. Most historians who compare the Russia she inherited (or usurped) in ...

All the latest news, photos and more from Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. Catherine started her acting career in the West End before making her move to the screen in the 1990s. She is married ...

The heart of St. Roque lay in the display case in front of me. It still held the power of life and evangelization, announcing ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Monday that the U.S.-Russia relations are on the verge of a major breakdown. Despite President Trump claiming that he spoke with Russian ...

Catherine Putz is managing editor of The Diplomat ... are parroting the same language used by Central Asian and Russian autocrats about RFE/RL. Dinara Kutmanova and her son, once at the forefront ...

Vladimir Putin’s call with President Trump reinforced the Russian leader’s view that Moscow and Washington should decide the fate of Ukraine — and other weighty matters. By Anton ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. In his first trip abroad, the new U.S ...