The Great Game By Peter Hopkirk Kodansha International, 565 pages, $30 The Great Game was the Cold War of the 19th Century. From the end of the Napoleonic era to the eve of World War I, Russia and … ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's FSB fears China is "trying to encroach on" Russian territory, a leaked document alleges.

After 9/11, external powers, like the US, try to exert influences in Central Asia. Russia is not at all pleased with this development since this area is former Soviet territory. However, Russia is ...

For most of the 19th and early part of the 20th century, the British and Russian Empires engaged in elaborate political, economic, and diplomatic confrontations to control portions of Central Asia.

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For many in the West, the masterworks of 19th-century Russian authors such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy have inspired awe. These writers often seem to stretch up their hands to heaven ...