Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science ...

He earned a media fortune in 1990s Russia with a “sex, news and rock ’n’ roll” strategy and defended press freedoms after the ...

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.” — Mikhail ...

Explore the historical and ideological currents that shape the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict… is this merely a crisis, or ...

I had just finished a stint in Ukraine and was preparing to return. That night, I was talking with an old friend over dinner ...

Syria must heal its internal divisions to rebuild, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday, as he offered Moscow's help in stabilising the country after a wave of sectarian killings.

In The World of the Cold War, Vladislav Zubok, professor of international history at the London School of Economics, recounts ...

BC: Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar, dies at 66. 30BC: Marc Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian at ...

A sanctioned former Kremlin politician was sued for shares in his multi-billion-dollar fertiliser company. But why did a trio ...