Catherine the Great moved to a foreign land as a teenager and became one of the most important leaders in history. Known for ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

In 1717, Peter the Great commissioned a building for his wife, Catherine, who succeeded him after his death, but her namesake palace only began taking on its grand stature in 1743, when their ...

In citing this "Potemkin version" of law, Scruton refers to the supposed tricky practice of Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin when acting as chief minister to Empress Catherine the Great of ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Ukrainian forces who took part in last year's shock invasion of Russia had no idea they were about to launch a cross-border assault until the ...

On 28 February 2022, four days into Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces had already occupied some towns on the Azov Sea coast, got close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power ...

It shows Catherine with arms outstretched atop a log in a forest. “As anyone who has experienced a cancer diagnosis will know, it takes time to adjust to a new normal,” she said in a post on X ...

Ukraine has accused Russian spies of orchestrating several bomb attacks on its army recruitment offices, as authorities revealed the latest attack killed one person and injured four. An attack on ...

Critics of that approach say it would effectively disarm Ukraine and effectively prompt a capitulation to Russia. Before becoming vice president, JD Vance vehemently opposed the funding given to ...

Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many authoritarians have seen as a threat. By Paul Sonne Reporting from Berlin When ...

KYIV, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Ukraine brought home 12 children forcefully taken by Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff Andriy Yermak said late on Monday. "As part of the ...