A Celebrated French Writer Loved Russia. War Forced a Reckoning.

Emmanuel Carrère’s best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the ...

Devastated in WW1 then carved up by Hitler & Stalin – how Poland is now tooling up for WW3 with Putin…at FEROCIOUS speed

FROM being ravaged by bloody World War I to being carved up by Hitler and Stalin during World War II, Poland endured the ...

Why Did Russia Sell Alaska? The History of Russia’s Ties to the U.S. State

The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a region rich with significance for ...

Russia’s feminist paradise proved anything but — even before Putin

Lyudmila PavlichenkoTo read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to ...
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For Putin, history is a weapon — and Ukraine is the target

In July 2021, Putin penned a history-laden pamphlet arguing that Ukrainians and Russians are kindred nations, artificially ...

Beware the Anglo-Saxons! Why Russia likes to invoke a medieval tribe when talking about the West

Take the new Russian state-backed film “Tolerance .” Released in September 2025 to a less than enthusiastic public response, ...
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For The First Time In The History Of Wars, The AFU Robots Defeated The Russians By Capturing A Position With Prisoners

The operation was conducted by the 3rd Assault Brigade.

The first time a president won a Nobel Peace Prize

But we have had a president “solve” a war — and win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so. When Theodore Roosevelt accomplished ...

How Russia is risking nuclear catastrophe with attempts to syphon power from Ukraine’s biggest plant

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), which has six reactors, was captured by Russian troops early in the invasion of ...