During these centuries together, Putin contends, virtually all countervailing tendencies encouraging localism, autonomous development, or self-determination turn out to have been foreign-sponsored ...

Our expert critics James Owen and John Dugdale round up the year’s finest tales of spy shenanigans, wartime skulduggery and psychological suspense ...

Among the highest profile is Boris Kagarlitsky, author of a new book, The Long Retreat ... But we also remember how much we have learned from his formidable knowledge of Russia’s history and his ...

Kirk’s book, “After the Gulag,” is unavailable in Russia, where the government is attempting to erase the system’s memory.

If you can't decide whether to crack open the spine of a fiction or nonfiction book, boy have we got a genre for you. Historical fiction, works that are set in the past and make their historical ...

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On May 23, a missile strike by Russia on Ukraine’s largest printing house, Kharkiv’s Factor Druk, resulted in the deaths of seven employees and the destruction of a facility that was pivotal to the ...

The history of Polish design might be perceived as quite short in comparison to some other countries, in particular those dominating the history of the design field. However, the period from the late ...

Today in History for June 9: On this date: In 68 AD, the brutal and paranoid Roman emperor Nero committed suicide at age 31. Nero is regarded as one of the worst of Rome's emperors, better known for ...

When it comes to Roman emperors, the ultimate teenage rebel Nero deserves a bit of a reappraisal, argues Conn Iggulden.

History is more like a succession of random events to which we later assign certain meanings. Its complicated perspectives are hard to see, in real time or even in hindsight.

The permission is intended solely for Ukraine to attack military sites in Russia being used to attack the Kharkiv area, U.S. officials said.