
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

2017 marks the centenary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century - the Russian Rev...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on hi...

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behin...

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime...

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet ...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

A look at Lenin's Mausoleum as a symbol of Russia's enduring and divided legacy.

Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recogni...

The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...