The protests that rippled across Russia ahead of Vladimir Putin’s fourth inauguration as president followed a familiar script.
Karl Marx’s work “can be explained in five minutes, five hours, in five years or in a half century,” wrote French political thinker Raymond Aron.
Many university students would be delighted to have the World Cup in town, but not Maria Cheremnova.
Thirty years ago, a colleague of mine in the British government who had ministerial responsibilities in Africa and Asia hung the world map in his office...
The fate of nations often comes down to the choices made by a handful of individuals at a particular moment in history.
Vladimir Putin stayed away from events marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution Tuesday, an event that changed the world but has awkward associations...
October 1917 brought not only political but also sexual revolution to Russia, with the early Soviets promoting female emancipation and the end of the...
Mikhail Ustinov’s ancestors were executed in 1917 for supporting the czar but a hundred years later the 68-year-old yearns for the return of monarchy to Russia.
Maria Ryabtseva was just a baby when the 1917 October Revolution broke out. Since then the former nurse has lived through extraordinary events from the USSR’s...
Russia on Thursday approved the cinema release of a racy film about Tsar Nicholas II's affair with a ballerina, despite protests from opponents and even...
One of the world’s greatest private collections of modern art is to be shown outside Russia for the time, exhibition organizers announced this week.
Rival Libyan camps issued separate statements Wednesday promising to calm tensions in southern Libya and fight terrorism, but offering no shared way forward...
MOSCOW – Russia is locked in a battle between official history (the story of the state) and counterhistory (the story of civil society and the memories of the...
The sixth anniversary of the Arab Spring uprisings this year came and went largely unnoticed.
Saint or playboy, blood-stained autocrat or family man, incompetent leader or just a victim of circumstance?
The Russian Revolution’s centennial this year coincides with the Trump Revolution in the United States, which itself followed the Brexit Revolution in the...
John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author, whose pioneering 1972 book “Ways of Seeing,” and the BBC series it spawned, redefined...
A children's event on Saturday at the National Opera kicked off a year of festivities in Finland to celebrate 100 years of independence from Russia.
Russian art restorers Friday unveiled a recently discovered portrait of the last Czar Nicholas II, almost a century after it was hidden behind a giant...
A historic first ever visit to Britain by the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church will help strengthen trust between the countries with ties at a frosty...