Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it’s coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...
Russian cosmonaut who spent 14 months in space left scientists shocked after health was assessed
Roughly, he spent a total of 14 months and 17 days in space uninterrupted; a record to this day. It had meant to be 16 months ...
Being soft on Russia has never worked, and history proves it
Historically, Russia has responded to strength, not appeasement. As US diplomat and historian George Kennan famously stated ...
How did nine hikers end up dead, burnt and radioactive in the Soviet mountains?
The hikers were found dead outside their tent. Some barefoot. Some naked. Some radioactive. All outside in the darkness of remote Russia, then the USSR, in 1959. Their leader, Igor Dyatlov, 23, an ...
Fashion Week in Moscow
A model wears a creation by late Soviet and Russian designer Slava Zaitsev on a runway of the Moscow Fashion Week in Moscow, ...
An artist traces her choices under Putin’s Russia – from resistance to retreat to exile – one mural at a time
(THE CONVERSATION) Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. What she has illustrated – as well as ...
Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?
"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...
Lithuanian defense minister: Only way to negotiate with Russia is with a 'gun on the table'
Minister of Defense of the Republic of Lithuania Dovilė Šakalienė's advice on how to deal with Russia: "The only good ...
Russia's high-flying gas exporter crippled as Europe stays away
When the CEO of Russian state gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, opened a lavish Italian palazzo-styled building in central St ...