A gala concert featuring artists and bands of the Union State, two presidential orchestras, Cossack song festival, a ceremony ...

This is a bombshell, putting to the lie Russian propaganda’s longstanding claim that some spiritual entity called Russia has ...

Discover the Cossacks' impact on Ukraine's history, from their autonomous Sich to the modern revival of their symbols and ...

Unusually, and precisely because of the complex relationship between Soviet and Russian, it was the leader of the core imperial nation, Russia’s Boris Yeltsin, who gave the final push.

The resulting sympathy for Russia’s imperial worldview finds expression among Western academics, media personalities and activists who deny Ukrainians’ agency in repeating the Kremlin ...

Artist Ilya Repin glorified his native Ukraine and its Cossack legacy in his paintings. All the same, many art historians still mistakenly believe him to be Russian.

In the region of Sloboda, which ran from modern-day Sumy to Kharkiv oblasts, Cossack regiments were reforged into Russian imperial army units. In 1764, the Cossack system was abolished and ...

On Alexander Voloshin & White Russian Hollywood. S om e twenty pages into Nabokov’s first novel, Mary (1926), the protagonist, Ganin, an émigré displaced by the Russian Revolution who has found a ...

Yes, all wars are bloody, but they’re not all fought like this. The First World War, for example, killed millions. Yet Captain Boris Sergievsky, a fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air ...

Vladimir Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine is his attempt to become part of Russia's long imperial history ...

The Russian empire also relied on German, Polish, Swedish, Tatar, Cossack, and Ukrainian elites to administer its rule in their regions, helping to ensure that many non-Russians occupied privileged ...