The Decembrists were Russia’s first revolutionaries, challenging autocracy in the early 19th century. This series explores ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

It may come as a surprise in the capitals of liberal democracies in the West — not to speak of blue urban America — that ...

Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States would take back the Panama Canal as he delivered ...

Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's gambling addiction took him to these three German spa towns, which then inspired him to ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

Russia and Ukraine have battled over the atmospheric seascapes of the celebrated 19th-century painter Ivan Aivazovsky. Of Armenian descent, Aivazovsky (1817-1900) spent most of his life in ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact between Moscow and ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks ... at the heart of the Ukrainian identity struggle caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion. The photograph — staged and taken ...

What to know about the Russian-Iranian relationship: Russia and Iran fought wars in the 18th and 19th centuries ... In the early 20th century, Russian troops occupied large parts of northern ...

There has been a lot of debate over whether or not recent Russian history has been somewhat cyclical in nature.