Washington, which sees the Russia-China partnership as a threat to its global interests, is pursuing new manoeuvres to ...

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 … ...

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 ...

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

During the 18th century, Russia was actively expanding into the Kazakh Steppe and came close to the borders of the Central Asian states. The Kazakh clans of the so-called Junior and Middle Zhuzes ...

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 ...

Russian men entering through Angel Island. Immigrants from Russia entered the United States at both coasts starting in the late 1800s. Nearly 3 million Russians entered during the first wave of open ...

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.

Russia itself extended the vote to women after demonstrations in 1917. In at least eight additional countries, some women – but not all – gained equal voting rights in or before 1920. More than half ...