How the Kremlin's plan for a quick conquest turned into a quagmire ...

They ascended the throne at the end of one of the most critical periods of Russian history, known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613). The last tsar of the previous dynasty, a weak son of Ivan ...

Russia has a habit of falling victim to economic sanctions for behaviour deemed to be hostile to the rest of the world. In 1948 the allied powers clamped a broad range of restrictions on doing ...

The history of what we now think of as Russia started in Kyiv more than 1,000 years ago when Viking warrior-merchants came down from the north and founded Kyivan Rus, the first East Slavic state ...

An overview of the packages of sanctions adopted by the EU since February 2022 in response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.