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

A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents.

Byzantine Patriarch Anthony warned the Church cannot endure without an empire, emphasizing their inseparable unity during ...

In Nuuk, the snow-swept capital of Greenland, residents worry that US President Donald Trump is hell-bent on seizing their ...

To a Western observer, Ukraine’s recent moves — renaming streets, dismantling monuments, and removing names like Tchaikovsky from music academies — might look like an excess of “cancel culture” or ...

The Estonian border fence separating Russia from NATO, as seen near Lutepää in southern Estonia in November 2025. (Linus Höller/staff) LUTEPÄÄ, Estonia — Across the snowy and muddy forests of eastern ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. By Franz Lidz The apostle Paul traveled widely across the Roman Empire to spread the ...

North Korea has mandated Russian as a foreign language for its elementary school children – a further sign of Moscow’s increasing ties with the hermit kingdom stemming from its invasion of Ukraine.

Ray Laurence does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase ...

Torbjörn Törnqvist has just struck one of the deals of his lifetime, pouncing on the overseas operations of Lukoil soon after the Russian oil producer was hit with U.S. sanctions. If Washington and ...