From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...

Margarita Simonjan, one of the most well-known Kremlin propagandists and a favourite of Putin, called for the recovery of ...

Afghanistan, neighboring the Russian Empire, became a focal point in the British policy of containment of Russian expansion. Seeking the neutrality of Afghanistan, the British officials aimed to ...

This was never just about Ukraine. It was a broader push to reassert Russian dominance over its former empire. Russia’s pattern of aggression is the clearest refutation of the “NATO expansion” myth.