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 ...

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the publication, on Christmas Day, of a treaty between himself and the crowned ...

Donald Trump says he and Vladimir Putin will discuss "dividing up certain assets" in Ukraine as part of peace talks that will ...

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 ...

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

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

In the early 20th Century Tsar Nicholas II in Russia was under the spell of a demonic cleric, Grigorii Rasputin, who ...