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.

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He goes on to say Russia is capable of rewinding the clock 800 years to restore the Russian Empire. "We can rewind it by 800 years more," Mardan continued.

Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ...

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian empire continued in a rather peculiar form as the Soviet Union. When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded in 1922, ...

Stella Ghervas, professor of Russian history at Newcastle University, believes Putin is inspired by the borders of the old Russian Empire, once one of the world’s great powers.

Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii captured rare images of Russia in the early 1900s. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called the West an “empire of lies” and accused it of adopting a neo-colonial mindset in its overtures to the Global South to win backing for ...

"Don’t forget your heritage," Pope Francis urged an audience of young Russian Catholics on Friday, in comments that sparked anger in Kyiv and delight from the Kremlin.

Putin’s Russia rests on an unsustainable contradiction. It is, at one and the same time, both a colony and an aspiring empire. It can’t be both, however, and sooner rather than later Russia ...

He was born in 1885 in Graz, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to an aristocratic Baltic German father, and was raised in what is now Estonia. He received military training in St. Petersburg and went on ...

Putin sees Ukraine as part of his "destiny" to "recreate the Russian Empire," said ex-Defense Secretary Gates. "He is obsessed with retaking Ukraine. He will hang in there," Gates said on Sunday ...