Ms. Kuznetsova and Mr. Storyev are human rights experts who fled Russia. We both grew up in Russia in the early 2000s and lived through the country’s gradual slide into authoritarianism under ...

The boyars felt they could easily manipulate Mikhail, and he ended up ruling in tandem with his more powerful father. It was Peter the Great who offered the best of the Romanovs.

Romania Cultural Season 2024–2025, we dive into the surprising depth of Polish-Romanian connections across language, history, and art. From shared Slavic roots in Romanian vocabulary and Polish traces ...

A Russian Beriev A-50. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File Among the other planes that Ukraine said it hit are ones Russia has used to fire missiles in its invasion.

Ukraine launched a "large-scale" drone attack deep into Russian territory that security officials claim destroyed 40 military bombers as it gears up for another round of talks in Istanbul to ...

A nighttime Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv killed 15 and injured 131. The bombardment demolished a residential building, marking one of the deadliest strikes on the city in months.

Russia has performed poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine and will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of 2025. New CSIS data details Russia's slow rate of advance, heavy losses of ...

In addition to more territorial concessions, Moscow demanded limits to the size of Ukraine's army. Ukraine has repeatedly rejected the Russian conditions as tantamount to surrender. ISTANBUL − ...

Timofeev, a former DJ, and Ekaterina “Katya” Timofeeva, his erotic novelist wife, were linked to Ukraine’s stunning “Russian Pearl Harbor” attack on its air bases.

A day after Ukraine launched an unprecedented drone attack on airbases inside Russia, the warring sides sat down for a second round of direct talks in Turkey.

Russia also reported it was attacked by Ukrainian drones, including on a factory in the Tambov region south of Moscow, the Engels air force base in the nearby Saratov region, and the airport at ...