How did Russia become the largest country in the world? In this first part of our detailed series, we trace the early history ...

The Thousandth Year of the Russian Empire. Share full article. Jan. 16, 1862. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 16, 1862, Page 6 Buy Reprints.

The name alone carries a sinister weight – Eurussian Empire – an alliance of two once historically opposing forces, Europe ...

The new Russian Empire Even as the invasion of Ukraine drags on, Russian President Vladimir Putin is destabilizing neighboring governments in hopes of building a new empire — or at least having ...

Mikhail Zygar, a Russian author and the founding editor of an independent television station called TV Rain, has written a book, The Empire Must Die, that, among other things, tells the story of ...

Jeffrey Sachs comments on how closely 21st-century U.S. policy towards the Russian Federation mirrors how the 19th-century ...

The Russian empire, otherwise known as Imperial Russia, was the final period of the Russian monarchy lasting from 1721 until its dissolution in 1917.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate the Russian empire and won't back down in Ukraine, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview with "Face the ...

Russia’s career as an empire—in the forms of imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation—began in the 14th century with the relentless expansion of the Grand Duchy of ...

The Vatican sought to defend Pope Francis on Tuesday after he sparked fury in Ukraine by praising Russia's imperial rulers — a history President Vladimir Putin has invoked to justify his ongoing ...