Syed Firdaus Ashraf marches through time to trace the bitter history between Russia and its West European neighbours.

French President Emmanuel Macron made an emergency address to the nation on prime-time French television yesterday. The day ...

The Whites’ great hope: their newly-appointed ‘Supreme Ruler of Russia’, Admiral Alexander Kolchak. Kolchak was a war hero, a man of duty and discipline, who believed above all in service to ‘the ...

Marco Polo (1254--1324) is likely the most famous merchant who ever lived. Even small children know his name, thanks to the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding talks with the head of Myanmar’s military government, who is seeking to cement ...

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

The majority of the population believe they have defeated the West, emboldened by the American u-turn. But now the question ...

Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Darchiyev as the new ambassador to the United States, according to ...

In Moscow lies a corpse the tsar fears so much his spies still guard the grave. When Trump visits Russia, he should take time out from hobnobbing with Putin to visit the resting place of Alexei ...