The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

SOLDIERS slaughtered in the snow with masses of frozen bodies piling up – this is what happened the last time Russia dared to ...

SOLDIERS slaughtered in the snow with masses of frozen bodies piling up – this is what happened the last time Russia dared to ...

The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s ...

Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine as a starting point for talks.

Ukraine’s present struggle is rooted in five centuries of shifting borders and fallen empires. As negotiations loom, leaders must decide how much of Ukrainian land they are willing to bargain away ...

The past eight decades have been the longest period without a war between great powers since the Roman Empire. This anomalous era of extended peace came after two catastrophic wars, each of which was ...

Trump’s craving for a Nobel may be the only thing stopping him from giving Putin what he wants—and the leverage keeping Ukraine alive.

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

Alarming polls show young people have a better view of socialism than the free market. Here’s how we can reverse that. | ...

Under heavy sanctions following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia stepped up its courting of African governments with offers of military cooperation, weapons, grain and fertilizers. It’s also ...