“The Lady of the Mine,” by Sergei Lebedev, takes place during Russia’s 2014 invasion. Boris Fishman’s new novel, “The ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, ...

Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among ...

White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.

Turning up to negotiations with Ukraine still holding on to Russian territory, even small parcels, will weaken Putin. Pro-Russian social media channels showed screenshots of Ukrainian forces ...

The posthumous memoir by Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader, mingles the account of a politician with the story of a martyr.

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But we'll be back tomorrow with more updates on the war in Ukraine. Here are the key lines from today: Outgoing US defence secretary Lloyd Austin announced a $500m (£407m) aid package for Ukraine ...

But over 1,000 days later, Kyiv and most of Ukraine still stand despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal of capturing the capital and forcing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ...

Katarina Shaw and Heath Rocha found refuge from their hardscrabble upbringings in each other — and ice skating. They became childhood sweethearts and Olympic ice dancers, but an unexpected twist ...

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