In the summer of 2015, three Syrian girls who had narrowly survived an airstrike some weeks earlier stood before Tulsi Gabbard with horrific burns all over their bodies. Gabbard, then a US ...

Putin and Russia have one thing in common: violence. Russian history is essentially a history of violent undertakings in the vast region known as Russia. In the same fashion, Putin’s life has been, ...

As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push for a swift end to the war in Ukraine, fears are mounting that Kyiv could be forced to accept a peace deal on unfavorable terms, and that will leave it ...

“You don’t even exist!” Characters in Russian fiction are always insulting each other in this way. They call each other zeroes, nothings, nonentities. The hero of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground ...

TASS FACTBOX. On March 26, 2024, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that all the necessary laws concerning the use of the death penalty in Russia were in place and a decision whether to ...

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in World War II. The ...

Representatives from Russia and Ukraine will be in meetings to try to hammer out details of a ceasefire on Monday. But peace is still a long way off. The long history of Russia's broken promises to ...

An extensive four-volume work by historian and legal scholar Giovanni Codevilla has filled a serious gap in historical research on the Eastern Slavic world. The work, whose title may be translated as ...

Robert Service is among the world's most authoritative historians of Soviet and Russian history and the author of books including biographies of Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin as well as 2019's Kremlin ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...