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 ...

Catherine Belton is an international investigative reporter for The Washington Post, reporting on Russia. She worked from 2007 to 2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times ...

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 ...

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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President Trump's repeated claim before he took office, that he could end in just 24 hours the war that Russia launched with its full-scale invasion in February 2022, has fueled fear in Ukraine ...