Syed Firdaus Ashraf marches through time to trace the bitter history between Russia and its West European neighbours.

French President Emmanuel Macron made an emergency address to the nation on prime-time French television yesterday. The day ...

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the ...

Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia is engulfed in a gigantic civil war. Lenin and the Reds hope to forge a new Soviet ...

The Whites’ great hope: their newly-appointed ‘Supreme Ruler of Russia’, Admiral Alexander Kolchak. Kolchak was a war hero, a man of duty and discipline, who believed above all in service to ‘the ...

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

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

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...