“You don’t even exist!” Characters in Russian fiction are always insulting each other in this way. They call each other zeroes, nothings, nonentities. The hero of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground ...

Putin and Russia have one thing in common: violence. Russian history is essentially a history of violent undertakings in the vast region known as Russia. In the same fashion, Putin’s life has been, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push for a swift end to the war in Ukraine, fears are mounting that Kyiv could be ...

History is generally chronicled from the rather parochial perspective of human beings. We are the ones recording it, and in keeping with our species’ characteristic narcissism, we tend to emphasize ...

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in World War II. The ...

Russia celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the second world war on May 9. But while the cameras will focus on the assembled ranks of elderly war survivors watching the military ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: Now, the political tension that we were talking about in Georgia and the war in Ukraine each have a common cause, yes, Vladimir Putin’s efforts to deny them democracy and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As his White House meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart devolved into a stunning blowup, President Donald Trump leaned on a familiar refrain to explain his unique kinship with ...

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The Washington Post's David Herszenhorn, a specialist on the region's politics, spearheads the Post's “Russia, Remastered” series. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to explore the dramatic domestic ...