At Putin’s post-parade press conference, a reporter for the state television channel Rossiya asked Putin to comment on ...

In May 2016, Vladimir Putin announced that he was seizing personal control of the Russian State Archive (RosArkhiv), formally known as the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation. He removed ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When the invasion began, the international community quickly banded ...

Russia’s appetite for its past has always been ravenous. Nothing illustrates it better than Moscow’s fixation on Alaska, a fixation less about America’s frontier than about Ukraine’s survival. When ...

The Russian Empire wasn’t built in a day - but it nearly collapsed in one. A long line of tsars ruled with iron fists and divine right. But revolutionaries were waiting in the shadows, hungry for ...

For Russia, the agreement became a major diplomatic success in the Far East. For China, it became one of the painful episodes ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The year was 1998. Walking down Pushkin Boulevard in my native Donetsk, ...

Russia’s Imperial Studies | by Ronald Sunni and Valery Kivel’son | Translated by Jo Ho-yeon | Neomeobooks | 888 pages | 56,000 Korean won If Russia Wins | by Carlo Masala | Translated by Lee Ji-yun | ...

Putin’s Russia rests on an unsustainable contradiction. It is, at one and the same time, both a colony and an aspiring empire. It can’t be both, however, and sooner rather than later Russia will be ...

Discover Lenin's role in the Bolshevik Revolution, his leadership's impact on the USSR, and the controversial legacy of his ...

Russian culture has remained stuck in “old world” thinking and Russia is the only empire that has not repented for being an ...