There is truth in his claim that Ukraine and Russia are close kin, as the following maps demonstrate.What is nonsense is the ...

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It’s no coincidence that President Donald Trump caved to the Kremlin’s demands for peace-through-surrender, and insisted that ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial ...

Crimea, a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, has become the focal point of escalating tensions between Russia and the West ...

Russians, like other peoples, have been shaped by many events and processes — especially Orthodoxy and a history of constant ...

Russian middle and high school students will be handed a new textbook titled “My Family.” Published in March, the textbook’s co-author Nina Ostanina, chair of the State Duma Committee for the ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...

"This is the technique that the Russian Empire used in order to quickly assimilate the population after conquering new territories, to make them obedient to the regime," Kuleba said. "The main ...

The peninsula was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed it in the 18th century. It briefly regained independence two centuries later before being swallowed by the ...

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US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy clashed again on efforts to end the three-year-old war in Ukraine, with the US leader chiding Zelenskiy for refusing to recognize ...