That’s when Imperial Japan went for the sucker punch it would soon be famous for. It launched a surprise attack on Port Arthur in February 1904 and then laid siege to the city.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday sought to tamp down an uproar that erupted after Pope Francis praised Russia’s imperialist past during a video conference with Russian Catholic ...

IT is not surprising that the character of the great steam-yacht Livadia, just launched upon the Clyde for the service of the Emperor of Russia, is exciting widespread interest. Since Noah built ...

From the October 2012 issue of National Geographic Traveler "Hey, dance with us!” a young man yells to me over the music’s pulsing beat. He’s draped in a crimson elf vest ten sizes too big ...

Smoke billows over the oil refinery outside the town of Lysychansk on June 23, 2022, amid Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images) Banner ...

DONETSK, Ukraine—The military noose was tightening around the rebel city, and Alexander Borodai, now the leader of pro-Russia separatists in Donetsk, was urging decisive action. That was more ...

IT is no easy matter to render an account of the proceedings and publications of the “Imperial Russian Geographical Society.” So numerous are its sections, and so prolific is each of them ...

New York City police are looking for whoever draped a gigantic banner featuring a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin over the side of the Manhattan Bridge on Thursday. The 20 by 30 feet ...

NEW YORK – A giant banner with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the word "peacemaker" has been unfurled from a New York City bridge. The banner was spotted hanging from the ...