Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is preparing finally to rid itself of one of the last vestiges ...

1783: The Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months. 1812: Lord Byron makes his maiden ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Yuri Borisov after 2.5 years in charge of the nation's space agency Roscosmos, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Roscosmos chief Yury Borisov, according to a decree published on the Kremlin’s ...

A Ukrainian band is treating international audiences to their country's traditional folk music, spiced up with world music ...

The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is ...

Having a birthday in mid-January is memorable for the disasters that seem to regularly take place, now and historically. On ...

South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.

As Trump surrounds himself with tech billionaires, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist David Hoffman about Russia's ...

From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...

Eugenia Smith spent much of her life in Newport claiming to be the lost princess and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas. But do her claims add up?

Once the richest family in the world, the House of Romanov was Russia's ruling dynastic family for over 300 years from 1613 ...