Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

Tsar Alexander II of Russia stood at the crossroads of history—after all, his reign paved the way to the fall of the Romanov empire. And when you look at his scandalous life, it’s no wonder ...

As was easily foreseeable, the inauguration of Donald Trump's US presidency has provoked a wave of enthusiasm in Russia ... role’ in World War II, boasting of the victory achieved by the ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

Many of the 1,500 Jews who live in Finland today can trace their roots back to the Russian military ... were conscripted into the czar’s army and served in the garrisons established in 11 ...

The Tsar was too much occupied ... defense of Sevastopol, Russia was finally conquered. Nicholas died from chagrin, — or “medicine,” — and Alexander II. came to the throne, announcing ...

It has forced Russia to reorient its lucrative European energy trade to less profitable markets. Like Czar Nicholas II, Russian President Vladimir Putin has misidentified his primary foe.

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

Kremlin leaders share many characteristics, but they are not all alike. President Vladimir Putin will one day be replaced (sooner, I suspect, than many now expect); and another leader with the ...

The Russian Empire was proclaimed in 1721 by Peter the Great ... In 1881, revolutionaries killed Tsar Alexander II as his carriage passed through the streets of St Petersburg. The Church of the ...

A man with an obscure claim to a royal fortune made a deal to help regain his crown. It cost him more than he could imagine ...