Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate the Russian empire and won't back down in Ukraine, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview with "Face the ...

In 2020 a petition unsuccessfully sought to remove the statue based on his holding of the treaty authorizing the sale of Alaska from the Russian Empire, which a petitioner said “represents the ...