Since 2003, democratic revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia have dealt strategic blows to the ambition of Russia's leaders to reconstitute the former Soviet empire by retaining political and ...

The thing about nightmare scenarios is that they rarely come true. Still, it bears watching. There are half a dozen pending arms deals between Russia and Iran on the table, including the Russian S ...

The Russian Empire, also known as Imperial Russia, extended across Eurasia from 1721 (succeeding the Tsardom of Russia) until ...

Russia would not be the first former empire to face a moment of historical reckoning. Spain’s 1898 defeat at the hands of the upstart Americans was a watershed moment in Spanish history.

Analyze Putin’s notion of empire and China’s role in it. Putin’s ambition is to restore the Russian empire to something like its great expanse before the First World War.

The Russian Empire Revisited May 18, 2016 17:05 CET A century ago, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokhudin-Gorskii traveled through the territory of the Russian Empire.

The writer's 1997 treatise, "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia," at times reads like an overview of recent Russian history as expressed by Putin today.

Russia's "empire" will fall as different areas it lays claim to rebel over the Ukraine war, Ukraine's defense minister has said, predicting the breakup of the Russian Federation.

Pope Francis is under fire for recent comments where he appeared to praise the Russian empire in an address to Russian Catholic youths, sparking criticism from both state and religious leaders in ...