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

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

A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

In 1698, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia also imposed a beard tax. People had to pay a tax for growing a beard, as Peter wanted to modernize Russian society to resemble European countries.

Lord Mandelson, the incoming British ambassador to the US, met a Chinese official who led Beijing's "programme of transnational intimidation", it has emerged. In June 2023, the Labour peer was ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 ...

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If the Florida Legislature has its way — and Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn't veto it — Florida's new immigration czar will be state agriculture commissioner and former Florida Senate president ...