President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th-century imperialism. In a single news conference, he pondered making Canada a state and acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal by ...

including Alaska which was sold to the U.S. in the 19th century. Russia 1 channel host Viktor Solovyov referred to Trump's aspirations to take control of Greenland as a spur to what Russia should ...

Olkhon is a world away from the bustle of Russia’s cities and offers travellers a glimpse of pure wilderness, peacefulness ...

Their resources were exploited, and their traditional way of life was disrupted. By the 19th century, Russia started facing challenges in managing Alaska. But why? At the time, Britain ruled ...

That Donald Trump was re-elected in November was not a failure of democracy. It was rather a sign of democracy hard at work.

Trump wants to take Greenland from Denmark, make Canada the 51st state and retake the Panama Canal, threats reflecting his ...

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An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity. Russia’s ...

A trained pharmaceutical chemist, Lilly was an archetype of the dynamic and multi-talented 19th century American industrialist ... Bayer also had its Russian subsidiary seized during the Russian ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins January 18. How was the ecumenical movement born? What have been its major advances? A look back at the history of the rapprochement of Christians which, ...