Through the 1920s the fledgling Soviet Union was convinced that Britain was conniving at its destruction.
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New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.
When he first became president, many Russians were living in poverty.
The 90-minute film depicts Vladimir Putin in the gym, the kitchen and musing about how the West is responsible for trying to bring down Russia.
A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ‘political neomedievalism’ by the Kremlin.
Constitutions define the legitimacy of a state. But they have long been at the mercy of international power politics.
A frank, often funny account of his activism and a harrowing, courageous prison diary, Patriot is destined to become the canonical text of Russia’s democratic tradition.
A marketplace argument led to the emergence of a key eyewitness account of a Viking burial on the Volga river
Putin’s argument that Russia has a historic claim to Ukraine stretching back to the Middle Ages relies on some very doubtful sources.
A selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past fortnight.
Putin’s worldview echoes Russian phrase, ‘Who is not with us, is against us.’
Vladimir Putin and his KGB men have steadily extinguished the artistic freedom the genre enjoyed in the 1990s, with Ukraine’s invasion adding yet another nail in the coffin.
The troubling unrest in Dagestan impresses upon us the need to learn from our history
Russia’s casualty count in Ukraine is high, but the country has a national mythology built on loss and sacrifice.
A new study traces how Russia’s empire building, especially in Ukraine, resulted in long-term economic damage and fomented rebellion for over a century.
Francis I’s message seemed to unwittingly echo some of Vladimir Putin’s historical justifications for invading Ukraine.
Russia has long been a ‘paramilitarised’ regime, where the state can be challenged and undermined, but is not completely destroyed, by paramilitary or criminal groups.
A historian explains how Russian President Vladimir Putin, weakened by a short-lived mutiny, might find a path to peace with Ukraine.
Centuries before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the expulsion of individuals or even entire nations was used as a targeted instrument of war.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
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