Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact between Moscow and ...

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 ...

U.S. private equity firm TPG and Russian state-owned firms Rosatom and Transneft on Friday won their bid to block jailed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Putin’s management is under scrutiny.

There is a developing Russia/China/Iran/NK axis with a contiguous landmass stretching ... stressing the importance of naval power in the rise of the British Empire. In this and subsequent work, he ...

His empire also spans a hedge fund, which has operated from offices in London, Geneva and Singapore, as well as a Dubai-based commodities trading firm that’s dealt with Western oil majors. Iran and ...