More than being figments of our imagination, these castles are real. Spanning continents, castles around the world stand ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine, his aim was to sweep into the capital, ...

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Move over Catherine the Great, Anna of Russia is in town. This hard-living, bitter-hearted Tsarina may not be as well known as the so-called Great, but she has more debauched antics and cruel tricks ...

As a condition for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, Russia demands lifting of sanctions on Russian Banks, insurance companies, ...

The special correspondent of the Hong Kong edition of Asia Times, Stephen Brian, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for ...

The Russian President reportedly wants Ukraine to cede territory his troops have never occupied as part of negotiations ...

The U.S. may carry the biggest sticks on the seas, but does it have the most? Here's how the largest national navies in the ...

Catherine Belton of the Washington Post and ... and the trend of his reasserting Russian great power, were on a collision course. It was the idea of Andrei Sakharov — the creator of the ...

Putin might even recall Catherine the Great’s comment on autocracy: “Any other form of government would be not merely harmful, but utterly ruinous for Russia.” But the 18th-century empress ...

Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch, was found hanged in his Sunningdale home in March 2013. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Berezovsky converted to Russian Orthodoxy in 1994. His leap of ...