Why was that? Bell: The year is really important. Censorship of literature in the Russian Empire was always pretty strict, but 1848 was a year when lots of revolutions and revolts broke out in Europe.

In September, the unit’s drones hit a Russian ammunition depot between Moscow and St. Petersburg, in Tver region. The attack on Toropets, the Ukrainians claimed, resulted in the destruction of a ...

In Georgia and Moldova, countries where opinion polls routinely register pro-European majorities, large numbers of voters are ...

A step-by-step look at how U.S. economic sanctions work — and what happens to assets the government wants to freeze.

Maria Salomea Sklodowska- Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was born at Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire on November 7, 1867. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and ...

While the Kremlin has threatened to shoot down Western satellites aiding Ukraine, Planet Labs’ founders have played a pivotal ...

Ivan Konstantin Aivazovsky was a Russian-Armenian Romantic painter known for his depictions of seascapes, for which he is considered one of the greatest marine artists in history. He was born on July ...

A Russian man has been rescued after 67 days adrift on a small boat in the bitterly cold Sea of Okhotsk, Russian authorities said Tuesday. The man’s brother and his teenage son died in the ...

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The dress code on the invitation said “Black Tie”. Giorgio Armani, a man who does nothing in half measures, pulled out all the stops for his first show in New York in ten years—and he asked ...

Official casualty numbers are secret, but a joint project by the BBC Russian service and independent news service Mediazona says it has confirmed the deaths of at least 72,899 Russian soldiers as ...