On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for two decades pitted the Russian Tsardom against the Swedish Empire. As ...

A Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine's capital killed at least 5 people, with more feared missing under the rubble ...

Sergey Mardan has claimed Russia could restore its long-abandoned empire.

The Russian military station outside the town, however, completely commands the ancient walled city, and it is only too probable that if a battle at Mukden occurs the Chinese city will be in the ...

“Fucking shit Russian car,” my driver spat as a Lada sedan passed us on the highway from Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi to Stepantsminda during my trip there in 2019, shortly after our long ...

The Russian Empire Must Die A better future requires Putin’s defeat—and the end to imperial aspirations.

Police in ex-Soviet Moldova detained the leader of the country's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority at Chisinau's international airport late on Tuesday, following the unexplained disappearance of ...

The Russian Empire, which existed between 1721 and 1917, covered a vast territory. Finland was part of Russia's empire until it declared its independence after the Russian Revolution.

The word pogrom literally means "riot" in Russian. Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in ...

With hindsight, we can see that the decline of the Russian empire has been one of the great drivers of European history over the past 40 years.