This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

The government sent him to Russia in 1832 and again in 1835, to persuade the tsar’s officials that Britain and Russia ... Britain’s more telling contribution to wartime strategy emerged in 1855. As ...

Cloud cover is common … Emperor penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands talking ... have only been visited by humans about 242 times since 1855. [Emphasis added.] The Sydney, Australia, bureau of the ...

The Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn captured in fiction the events that led to the Bolshevik revolution.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting heads of states for festivities Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat ...

For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the annual Victory Day celebration on May 9, commemorating the Soviet victory over Hitler in World War II, to mark his own greatness. The Soviet ...

Every once in a while, Russia’s motorcycle assault tactics work—and help Russian regiments nudge the front line in eastern Ukraine a mile or so to the west. There’s a line of Ukrainian ...

President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength ... speaking beside a portrait of Tsar Alexander III, a 19th century conservative who suppressed ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken center stage at Russia’s Victory Day parade on Friday, surrounding himself by friendly world leaders in a highly choreographed show designed to show ...

The Government was accused of double standards in exchanges where they were accused of paying “tsar” salaries that would please a “Russian oligarch”. Opposition politicians criticised ...

A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in its history. By Constant Méheut and Daria Mitiuk Reporting from Odesa ...

But no solution could be found. Russia demonstrated little interest, after mid-2022, in any negotiated end to the war. President Donald Trump came into office pledging to end the war -- a war that ...