In both World Wars, people assume the Allied Powers had a crushing advantage and would have inevitably won the conflicts.

By Alexander Larin On August 26, 1898, 1,126 Russian Doukhobors arrived at the port of Larnaca on the French steamship Le ...

Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...

The Russian army has launched more drones and dropped more bombs on Ukraine in recent days, stressing the point that its goal ...

Russia’s military has performed poorly in the war in Ukraine in land, air, and at sea against ... or something as big as the 50 megaton Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear device ever tested.

By clinging to his war in Ukraine, Putin is deliberately driving Russia towards its collapse. He has shown the world the true ...

The Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process is going sideways, with belligerent rhetoric displacing hopes that a lasting ...

As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, we took a look at the history of the complex relationship between the nations.

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

Putin has made no secret of his imperialist ambitions, even comparing himself to Peter the Great, a tsar who annexed swathes of new land for Russia centuries ago. While many in the international ...

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

How should a politician who holds the greatest power in their country act after losing a war, losing the support of traditional allies, and failing to find new ones?