In Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Tim Blanning restores the ‘incorrigible Saxon’ to ...

when he married the Princess Sophia, niece of Constantine Palæologus, the last of the Greek emperors, and assumed the double-headed eagle of the Byzantine Empire as the symbol of the Russian.

Just as ancient Roman Empire had ... activities of the Russian Minister of Defence, the Orthodox subdeacon Andrey Belousov. More natural appears the exaltation of the holy monk Joseph Volotsky ...

Ever since the head of the Russian Orthodox Church declared President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine a "holy war" last year ... even a traditionalist empire one day." Riccardi-Swartz ...

We need to understand that Russian domestic politics is still burdened with heavy imperial baggage from the early 20th century. And its central geopolitical priority these days sees the West as a ...

Russia is not a country forged by shared values, common beliefs or a unifying purpose — it is an empire assembled by ... as “Moscovia,” seen in the maps and manuscripts from the time.

Ever since the head of the Russian Orthodox Church declared President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine a "holy war" last year, the ongoing war — which initially began in 2014 but saw a dramatic ...

Russia has claimed to have captured another key Ukrainian town as it looks to consolidate gains ahead of potential peace talks pushed by Donald Trump. After months of heavy fighting, Russian ...

On January 9, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution recognizing the genocide of the Circassian people committed by the Russian Empire during the Caucasian War of 1763–1864. Points of ...

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Here is a map created by Newsweek to illustrate the number of attacks and their locations throughout the past year. Newsweek reached out to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and ...