This is a bombshell, putting to the lie Russian propaganda’s longstanding claim that some spiritual entity called Russia has ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian military forces have gained control of two more villages in Ukraine in areas where they have been making advances, one in the eastern Donetsk region and the other in the ...

Geolocated footage published July 4 suggests Russian troops have seized the villages of Koptyeve and Shevchenko Pershe and ...

Discover the Cossacks' impact on Ukraine's history, from their autonomous Sich to the modern revival of their symbols and ...

Unusually, and precisely because of the complex relationship between Soviet and Russian, it was the leader of the core imperial nation, Russia’s Boris Yeltsin, who gave the final push.

The resulting sympathy for Russia’s imperial worldview finds expression among Western academics, media personalities and activists who deny Ukrainians’ agency in repeating the Kremlin ...

Artist Ilya Repin glorified his native Ukraine and its Cossack legacy in his paintings. All the same, many art historians still mistakenly believe him to be Russian.

In the region of Sloboda, which ran from modern-day Sumy to Kharkiv oblasts, Cossack regiments were reforged into Russian imperial army units. In 1764, the Cossack system was abolished and ...

On Alexander Voloshin & White Russian Hollywood. S om e twenty pages into Nabokov’s first novel, Mary (1926), the protagonist, Ganin, an émigré displaced by the Russian Revolution who has found a ...

Yes, all wars are bloody, but they’re not all fought like this. The First World War, for example, killed millions. Yet Captain Boris Sergievsky, a fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air ...

Vladimir Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine is his attempt to become part of Russia's long imperial history ...