
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recogni...