Russia has advanced around Pokrovsk for many months, but has so far failed to entirely encircle or seize control of the city.

This placed Ukrainian culture at the heart of the broader European cultural conversation — a privilege that Russia, isolated and backward, could not afford. As the Russian Empire tried to reinvent ...

The idea that America faces an inexorable, irreversible decline has become a form of conventional wisdom. Is this really true — or is it becoming so because of poor policy choices being made by its ...

A ‘murder map’ holds some surprises. The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the ...

Trump and Putin speak on call following U.S. pause of weapons shipments to Ukraine. Russia continues escalating attacks on Ukrainian cities.

On 1 July, for the first time since February, the General Staff's operational maps of the front line showed Russian advances in Sumy Oblast (North Slobozhanshchyna front). Source: summary of the ...