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 ...

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation ... it was not until Stalin came to power that a Russian ruler once more tried to do business with philosophers. Both Catherine and Stalin, ...

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 ...

That meant that just a few months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, all three countries were able to stop buying electricity from Moscow. But Russia was still in ...

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 ...

DNA and radiocarbon dating analyses of the bones are offering new insights into the ambitious Ice Age site constructed by ...

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 ...

Photo: Ju Peng/Alexander Kazakov/Associated Press/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Xi Jinping has been a close observer of Russia’s three-year old war in Ukraine. China’s president has been ...