Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and ...

President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin form a ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retake the Crimean Peninsula after Russia’s seizure exactly 11 years ago ...

Musk and Tesla have faced heightened criticism since the billionaire made a gesture likened to a Nazi salute during an ...

In the USSR, Stalin’s goons shot some 7 million people by 1941 (according to a KGB report cited in Duncan Townson, Dictionary of Modern History 1789-1945). Is any such bloodshed happening now in ...

The full text of two messages, one by Stalin condemning racial hatred and reminding the world that anti-Semitism is punished by law in the Soviet Union, and the other by Hitler declaring that ...

Ukrainian painter Mykhailo Boichuk and his circle of socialist artists perished in Stalin’s 1930s repression, destroying much ...

Few remember Walter Duranty. Those who do recall that he was the Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times during the early ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

Ukraine could be reduced to a buffer zone – rather than a real country – under Trump’s plan for ‘peace’, writes Mark Almond. There are now serious questions over the US president’s approach to diploma ...

It briefly regained independence as a Tatar republic two centuries later before being swallowed by the Soviet Union. In 1944, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin deported nearly 200,000 Tatars ...