Putin cherry-picks from Russian history, combining homage to Soviet sacrifice in the “Great Patriotic War,” as World War II is known in Russia, with the reactionary ideas of exiled tsarist White ...

As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, we took a look at the history of the complex relationship between the nations.

Russia’s Orthodox Church remained politically neutral during the Civil War but faced harsh repression under the communist regime. Over 10,000 priests and church ministers and 28 bishops were killed.

Russia’s Cossack movement (which is now providing 50,000 fighters for the war in Ukraine) also shows signs of ethnic hostility. [21] Given the prominent role of the Kuban Cossacks in driving the ...

Ten years ago, Donbas An OSCE observer reconstructs his experience on the ground in Luhansk at the outset of Russia’s war ...

Vladimir Putin fed Tucker Carlson myths about Russian and Ukrainian history that are being taught to millions of Russian students.

An all-encompassing Russian disinformation campaign is using everything from bots to lifestyle influencers to powerful state-run media to sow division in the United States.

But he squarely confronts black spots in Ukraine’s past, such as the anti-Jewish pogroms of the Russian civil war era and the ultranationalist massacres of Poles during the second world war.

Thirty years on from the war in Abkhazia, civilians and fighters from both sides recall the upheaval that forever changed their lives, and the story of independent Georgia.

The ruthless recriminations were repeated 25 years later as Cossacks and other Russians who had fought with the Germans against the Soviets were repatriated, against their will, to the U.S.S.R.

Appropriating and rewriting foreign history has been a key aspect of Russia's imperialist narratives. This is especially true about the history of Ukraine, which Russia has sought to subjugate for ...