History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

Such a solution would conjure a cruel historical irony. Putin, who watched in despair from his post as a KGB officer in ...

An interview with international relations professor Nicholas Grossman, who explains why Putin has to be absolutely thrilled ...

Attempts to tame the Sahara Desert spawned some seriously cool, strange, and innovative vehicles during the 20th century.

On Feb. 6, 1958, a British airliner crashed upon takeoff from a Munich, Germany, airport. The crash killed 23 people, ...

South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.

From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...

Eugenia Smith spent much of her life in Newport claiming to be the lost princess and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas. But do her claims add up?

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

It was the biggest invasion of Russian territory by a foreign military since World War II. Russia’s defense was initially shambolic, and disorganized-- which prompted surprise and outrage ...

Now, we're getting a sequel to Gladiator, the acclaimed director’s 2000s classic. Gladiator II takes us back to Ancient Rome with a new and returning cast of star-studded talent facing off and ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has started flying detained migrants to deportation sites in Texas and California this weekend, in support of a wider operation to deport undocumented migrants in the United ...