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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

October 23-26, 2002 – one of the many bloody periods in the modern history of Russia. And the most t...
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recogni...

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

Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in E...

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...

Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination ...