The Russians were among the first Europeans to sense California's potential. Had they not sold their settlement there in 1841 ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in Cologne, Germany, before his departure for Zurich, Switzerland, on February 15, 1974. AFP "For a free Russia..." Between past and present, on Thursday, January 30 ...

A wave of outrage swept through the media after a film was released showing Russian military police forcing wounded soldiers ...

Russia plans to start mass production of the new Iskander-1000 missile system, which may alter the balance of power in the ...

Apple TV+ has confirmed that Carême, its upcoming drama inspired by the life of celebrated French chef Antonin Carême, will debut on April 30 th . Carême rose from humble beginnings in Paris to the ...

The two most famous examples are Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal, two former Russian intelligence officers who defected to the West and were living in the U.K. Years after their defections ...

Today marks the 154th anniversary of the passing of Sheikh Shamil, the legendary Caucasian leader whose fierce resistance ...

Hardly anyone recognizes the name Felix Yusupov. He was a Russian aristocrat and a member of the imperial family, whose place ...

Former figure skater Alexander (Sasha) Kirsanov, who competed in ice dancing for the United States, Azerbaijan, and Russia, tragically died in a plane crash over the Potomac River on January 29. The ...

It was still there around 300 years later, when the first Roman emperor, Augustus (reigned 27 B.C. to A.D. 14), visited Alexandria. "He was desperate to view the corpse of Alexander," Cartledge said.

Nine villages in southern Italy known as La Grecia Salentina have maintained aspects of the Greek language and culture for centuries.