"Special Report" Bret Baier delivers a history lesson on the Russian Empire and Vladimir Putin's intent on restoring it. BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS: Welcome back to SPECIAL REPORT. In just a few moments, we ...

Explore insights on Russia's imperial structure and the patterns of decline shared by empires, as discussed by historian ...

Annexation of East Georgia by Russia and adoption new forms of governing caused the discontent of wide layers of the population. The important part of the nobility was displeased by annulment of the ...

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” traces how Russian history and literature have shaped – and been shaped by – its deep forests.

During his much-publicized recent interview with American right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined his perception of Russian history as the second anniversary ...

I know the author of the book under review, Mark Edele, personally. “The whole story” is an unexpected subtitle for a book by a historian. We have long been alert to the fact that, faced with the ...

Last month, I stood at the corner of what used to be Pushkin Street in Kyiv. Following Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has been renamed Yevhen Chykalenko Street, after a ...

IN JULY 2021 Vladimir Putin published an essay with arguments he would later use to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It raced through 1,000 years of history to argue that Russians and Ukrainians ...

Russia has changed little over the past 400 years. Yes, Russians now drive cars instead of oxcarts, but from a political, cultural, military, and geopolitical standpoint, Russia and how it behaves has ...

In May 2016, Vladimir Putin announced that he was seizing personal control of the Russian State Archive (RosArkhiv), formally known as the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation. He removed ...

An extensive four-volume work by historian and legal scholar Giovanni Codevilla has filled a serious gap in historical research on the Eastern Slavic world. The work, whose title may be translated as ...