Events, including street parties, are being hosted by communities across the country to mark 80 years since World War Two ...

Britain kicks off four days of events Monday marking 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe, lent extra poignancy ...

Except that Crimea WAS Russian territory from 1783, when Catherine the Great annexed it, until 1954, when Soviet leader Nikola Khrushchev transferred it back from Russia to Ukraine. Sure ...

For more information, visit the palace's website. Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six ...

The construction of St. Isaac's Cathedral was ordered by Alexander I in the early 1800s. This neoclassical marvel was finally completed in 1858 after 40 years of construction. St. Isaac's has an ...

A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia May 7–10 at President Vladimir Putin’s invitation, the Kremlin confirmed ...

Concern is growing in Moscow that Russia could lose its edge in talks with the United States over the Ukraine war now that Kyiv has finally signed an economic partnership agreement giving ...

Earlier Israel's military said it struck an area "adjacent" to Sharaa's palace in Damascus ... win 10:47 PM UTC · Updated ago Europecategory Russia's drone attack on Kyiv sets several residential ...