Torbjörn Törnqvist has just struck one of the deals of his lifetime, pouncing on the overseas operations of Lukoil soon after ...
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Why Russia’s Colonial Empire Failed

Russia once held ambitions to dominate parts of North America, stretching from Alaska down the Pacific coast. In this video ...
The Russian people must transcend centuries of indoctrination and figure out what it means to be no longer an empire.
In fact, Putin has recently told the truth perhaps for the first time ever. Fighting is truly in the Russian genes. Looking at Russia (the muscovite tsardom and empire) reveals that periods of ...
In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...
EADaily, October 30th, 2025. Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with the phrase: "Geography is a sentence." If this is true, then ...
Since 1949, NATO has been preparing to defend Western Europe from a Russian attack. Until 1989 Russia had massed several hundred thousand troops in East Germany along with several thousand tanks, most ...
An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways. “When I walk down the street ...
The work in Uzbekistan’s first biennial shimmers with the promise of culture as a connective tissue, while the autocratic government that funded it lurks in the shadows.
ANKARA, November 1. /TASS/. An Istanbul court has ruled to transfer ownership of a historic Bosphorus mansion to the descendants of a Russian Empire diplomat who purchased it in 1868, following a ...