IN the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held ... century geopolitical chessboard involving Britain and Russia. To prevent an armed conflict between British India and the Russian empire ...

"Britain always has been ... who has been designated as a foreign agent in Russia. "‘Let it be,’ as the Beatles used to sing," he added. Medvedev remarked with irony how admirable the British ...

Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the ...