By Ben Aris in Berlin An ancient story of investors trying to recover billions of dollars of debt Russia defaulted on after ...
The Louvre Museum recently acquired a 19th century triptych created by the House of Fabergé and presented as a gift to Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra for the birth of their first ...
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Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any other ...
China’s and Russia’s newly intensified naval partnership could embolden China in the South China Sea, where submarine activity is already intense. Russia and China are natural historical rivals. The ...
Next week, President Vladimir Putin will strut on the world stage, joining President Xi Jinping at Beijing for a vast military parade to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
A czar, by definition, is a term often used informally to describe a person who holds significant power or authority, particularly in a specific area or policy field. So what’s my problem with the ...
Popular history credits Russian Czar Nicholas I with describing 19th-century Ottoman Turkey as "The Sick Man of Europe." British envoy Sir George Hamilton's full quote lacks the headline's memorable ...