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 ...

The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that jewelry could also communicate power, authority, wealth and status.

A friend texted me early yesterday, wondering "what's the big deal?" with our tail-tucked missile defense retreat from Eastern Europe. This is coming from a guy who just finished a masters in ...

Ekaterina Maximova, 70, a Russian ballerina who graced the stage of the Bolshoi Theater for 30 years, died April 28 at home in Moscow. No cause of death was reported.

One night last week Moscow's foreign correspondents attended a preview of what may be the finest documentary war film ever made. Entitled June 13th, the picture is a 70-minute record of one ...

Great Wall's factory, around 200 km (125 miles) from Moscow, will expand capacity to 200,000 cars by 2025, Russian newspapers Vedomosti and Kommersant cited Andrei Akifiev, executive director of ...

Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, Secretary since 1930 of the Ail-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, is a big man in his home country, a great man for telling Soviet workmen a thing or two. Sole ...