As Washington seeks to resolve the war in Ukraine with peace negotiations, these maps show what each side in the conflict are ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Signed in secret at the height of the first world war, Sykes-Picot was an agreement between France and Great Britain, approved by Russia. It would have lasting consequences for the region. It is ...

The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we ...

(NEXSTAR) – Instead of waiting for an employee to take pity on you and unlock the cabinets in the deodorant aisle, some CVS customers are getting another way to access the locked-up shampoo and ...

Russia has claimed to have captured another key Ukrainian town as it looks to consolidate gains ahead of potential peace talks pushed by Donald Trump. After months of heavy fighting, Russian ...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] crucified a little boy wearing nothing but his underwear.” It sounds ...

Diplomats, travelers and scholars continued to refer to the realm as “Moscovia,” seen in the maps and manuscripts ... the blood-soaked legacy of the Russian Empire, and we seem to struggle ...

A victory for Putin means, in due time, a re-charting of the entire map of Europe, to suit his vision of a Russian empire that never lost the Cold War. The only way to end the war in Ukraine is to ...

Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. Trump issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. In a post on X, Google explained that it has a "longstanding ...

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Western nations have often tracked the ship operating in European waters and they suspect part of its mission has been to map undersea cables. They also believe Russia has been stepping up this ...