It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast, that they made the definitive choice to abandon speaking Russian altogether. “It has become ...

Like it or not, the world is divided into nations, most of which aspire to independent statehood, and into countries, which ...

Russification was the policy of enforcing Russian culture on the vast numbers of ethnic minorities that lived in the Russian Empire. It greatly affected the Poles, Lithuanians and the Ukranians.

Ultimately nearly two million people emigrated ... the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man, answerable only to God, who rules more than 170 million people. The Tsar's armies have grown ...

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 ...

An American businessman is urging President Trump to help save his $200 million canned food empire after Russian authorities ...

Parts of Poland were once annexed into the Russian Empire, but the nation was also ... to increase the country's army size to 2.4 million people - it is currently estimated to be around 1.5 ...