In 1855, Robert Sears’ guide to the Russian Empire declared, “There is perhaps no town in the world in which so many different tongues may be heard as in the streets and coffeehouses of Odessa.” ...

Putin, in the footsteps of Potemkin, is trying to recreate the Russian Empire by Dov S. Zakheim, opinion contributor - 03/22/24 9:30 AM ET ...

And as my old mentor, Zbigniew Brzezinski once said, without Ukraine, there can be no Russian Empire." CBS News ... North Carolina's Crystal Coast Is an 85-mile Stretch of Quaint Small Towns, ...

Days before his forces annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, Putin told an audience that "Kyiv is the mother of Russian cities," arguing that Russia and Ukraine were historically inseparable.

The Russian empire, which came to an end in 1917, ... However last week, his comments calling for the use of thermobaric weapons on Ukrainian cities were too much for one of his guests.

In the latest move to get distance itself from Russian dominance, Kazakhstan has renamed a town in the region around Astana, the capital, after Kenesary Khan, who led the largest uprising against ...

One of Repin’s lesser-known contemporaries, Kuindzhi was born in Mariupol in 1842 when the Ukrainian city was also part of the Russian Empire, his nationality has also been updated.