The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of ...

European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world ...

Google Maps is adding more options to its incident-reporting feature, which will allow drivers to avoid or prepare for ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we ...

Deribit is banning Russian users due to new EU sanctions, despite being based in Dubai under a Dutch parent company. Russian traders are the second-largest group on Deribit, but several other ...

While it’s great when an app delivers some useful new functionality, we can also get just as excited about clever tweaks to an app’s design. Google Maps has been working on just such an ...

Orthodox priests from Russia are facing repression for opposing Russian policies and the invasion of Ukraine. Many have fled, facing difficulties in resettling, such as finding jobs and learning ...

Uttarakhand government introduces a list of 37 prohibited relationships under the Uniform Civil Code for both men and women to avoid unions within certain familial ties. These prohibitions span ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern ...

Google’s maps division reportedly reclassified the US as a “sensitive country" – like Russia and China – on Monday. It's a designation it reserves for states/countries with strict ...

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