By Ipshita Basu, Sudheesh R.C. In the early hours of July 30 2024, a landslide in the Wayanad district of Kerala state, India ...
The poet and translator Irina Jurčuk, a native of the city of Kharkov on the border between the two countries, the epicentre of the ongoing conflict, has published her book ‘The Overpass’ ...
Authorities accused Anin and his former colleague Ekaterina Fomina of disseminating false information on the Russian Armed Forces.
I command Kievan Rus and I am facing the Kingdom Poland. The battle is fought in the middle of a snow storm. The Mod is ...
Swedish Vikings pushed east for Abbasid silver, following river routes that led from the Baltic to the Black Sea and beyond. But trade quickly became conquest, and the Norse “Rus” turned Slavic towns ...
The consequences of Russia’s invasion are visible not only in Ukraine. The Kremlin has set off or exploited a series of crises that face most European countries.
A loyal companion to its rider, a chariot as the embodiment of victory in the Patriotic War of 1812, a quadriga symbolizing power. The image of the horse in architecture and art has been changing over ...
Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect the recent news event of a fire at the iconic landmark. It was originally published in the May/June 2017 issue of National Geographic History Magazine.
The famous formula of 19th century tsars, Autocracy-Orthodoxy-Nationality, is being reinterpreted today by Putin's ideologists as the new triad: Sovereignty-Traditionalism-Welfare State. Yet, it is ...