What to know about the relationship between Russia and Iran: ...

Iran's refusal to recognize Crimea as Russian ... annexed by Moscow in 1783 under Catherine the Great as part of the Russian Empire. It gained its independence with Ukraine in 1991.

Iran and its hapless proxies have now become a liability to Putin’s machinations to recreate a Peter the Great-like Russian empire. All of this is the result of Putin’s ill-fated decision to ...

The Russo–Ukrainian war is expensive and dangerous. After taking the oath of office Trump will have no more important duty ...

Vladimir Putin’s Russia is embroiled in war and plagued by systemic decay — and Donald Trump can exploit its weakness to end ...

His empire also spans a hedge fund ... based commodities trading firm that’s dealt with Western oil majors. Iran and Russia have acknowledged their strengthened defense cooperation, without ...

Rather than building a coalition of strong allies, Russia has gathered a motley crew of weak dependents like Belarus, African kleptocracies and rogue “frenemies” such as Iran. These ...

The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second ...

16th-18th Centuries - Safavid Iran (and successive Iranian Afsharid ... 1801-1804 - Most of present-day Georgia becomes part of the Russian Empire. 1879 - History's best-known Georgian, future ...

Russia’s failure to let the plane land and its refusal to take responsibility for the crash are upsetting a key partner.

Like Rome and the Habsburgs, Russia struggles with unsustainable wars and growing dissatisfaction at its fringes. The war in ...