In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private ...

This documentary explores whether the Soviet Union systematically imposed Russian culture on its diverse populations.

Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and bankrupting Russia. "He was very insistent that this mistake should not be repeated. And he's doing exactly that," ...

But in the Soviet Era, beginning in 1952, Vladivostok was a closed military city, and the only people allowed in and out were ...

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

There is talk of Russia moving into Belarus, launching attacks on Latvia and Lithuania, and preparing a massive operation in ...

The Kremlin mothballed Admiral Kuznetsov, ending a refit that began more than seven years ago. Russia is the only permanent ...

At first Russia downplayed the impact of the sanctions and turned its economy into wartime mode. Sensitive to civilian attitudes towards the war, the government sought to keep the stores full and the ...

Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the ...

Russia's pipeline gas exports to Europe sank by 44% in 2025 to their lowest since the mid-1970s, following the closure of the ...