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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s an idea: having adopted these people as citizens in the first place, deal with their baggage like we do for home-grown ...

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

He wanted Russia to go backward, to the pre-Soviet era when Imperial Russia was ruled by a tsar with the blessing of the Russian ... is delivering to Russians is that all is not well in the land Putin ...

Sometime during 1497, the Portuguese armada, led by Vasco de Gama, while searching for a sea route from Europe to India, ...

Economic Restrictions – Jews were banned from owning land and forced into money ... encouraged by Orthodox clergy. The Russian Church supported the Tsars’ anti-Jewish policies, which ...