The Moscow-appointed head of Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region claimed Tuesday that Russian forces now have full control of ...

Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ...

A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region says that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it.

The authoritative Ukrainian Deep State map indicates that Russia ... to capitulation and that Russia is not interested in peace and that they will never accept Russian control of a fifth of Ukraine.

It was under Catherine the Great in the 18th century that Orthodoxy became a lever of territorial expansion. ... The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin, ...

Catherine the Great expanded Russia. Under Catherine’s rule, Russia expanded by 200,000 square miles. Of course, not all of those miles were obtained from their occupants willingly or peacefully ...

This very much matched Catherine’s intellectual prowess, and the two women often discussed new ideas. The great blight on Dashkova’s adolescent life was her polar opposite older sister, Elizaveta.

Translations into Latin and Greek soon followed. Finally, under the next Russian tsar, Alexis’s son the future Peter the Great, Synopsis became in the 1700s the standard textbook on Russian history.

(“Rus” is the origin of the word “Russia”.) When it comes to political and cultural tradition, Kyivan Rus is indeed the cradle of Russia and Ukraine, as well as the country now called Belarus.

Russia once controlled 20 percent of U.S. territory. That legacy helps explain its aggression against Ukraine.

Catherine even had her eye on Constantinople, and dreamed of freeing it from Turkish occupation to restore it to Christendom under the rule of her grandson, fittingly named Constantine. While this did ...

This has bolstered Russia’s claim over the peninsula – something spearheaded by the conquest and annexation of Crimea by Catherine II (“the Great”) in 1783 and renewed by Vladimir Putin in ...