Over the dark waters of the Kerch Strait, a swarm of Russian Mi-8 gunship helicopters swoops down through the winter night ...

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 ...

Trump has expressed increasing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s escalating aggression in the European ...

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.

This very much matched Catherine’s intellectual prowess, and the two women often discussed new ideas. The great blight on Dashkova’s adolescent life was her polar opposite older sister, Elizaveta.

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 ...