Eric and Eliot welcome Stephen Kotkin, professor emeritus of history at Princeton University and senior fellow at Stanford ...

Europe has been through many ages in its busy history: the age of discovery, the age of reason, the age of expansion, the age ...

This article is authored by B Bala Bhaskar, former ambassador to Norway and specialist, Arctic affairs, New Delhi.

The US (or China) acts. Europe reacts. The US (or China) moves decisively. The EU debates and dithers. It’s a broader pattern ...

Two stunning new documentaries—one filmed in Mississippi, and one in Russia—examine the ways that education comes up against indoctrination.

Russia has not abandoned the game in the Middle East, and many countries in the region still have reasons to expand ties with ...

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” traces how Russian history and literature have shaped – and been shaped by – its deep forests.

How does that make sense?” Russian President Vladimir Putin said, two hours into his Dec. 19 press conference at the Kremlin.  Your answer to that question depends on which of two parallel realities ...

Authorities accused Anin and his former colleague Ekaterina Fomina of disseminating false information on the Russian Armed Forces.

The Apple TV sci-fi series about the 1960s space race, For All Mankind, presents an alternate history where the Soviet Union lands the first human on the Moon.

The Americanization of Greenland transcended brute imperial force in the Russian mold. Two years earlier, in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s showy military ouster of Venezuela’s leader, ...

In this epic but sprightly history, journalist and critic Pinkham (Black Square) explores the central role forests have played in the Russian cultural imagination. Noting that “long after western ...