The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, tours one of his territories; Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The empire – a mix of European nations with different ...

Not all of the fighting during World War One happened in the trenches of the Western Front. Some major battles were fought for control of the Middle East. It was here that the British Army ...

The president of its National Olympic Committtee, Vadym Gutzeit, said this week that Russian athletes not being able to ...

Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun said the horrific attack had 'turned a playground into a graveyard', with harrowing photographs ...

Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...

Daria Kasatkina says she “didn’t have much choice” but to defect from her home country of Russia following her decision to ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

A Russian Orthodox priest has been sentenced to 14 days in custody over a 2014 photo in which he was shown with a Ukrainian flag, according to the cleric's own account and Russian media reports.

One of the top tennis players from Russia, a critic of the war in Ukraine, wishes to represent Australia on the international ...

Russian-born Daria Kasatkina has not returned to the country in more than two years after coming out as gay and being one of ...

Russian-born tennis player Daria Kasatkina is switching allegiances to Australia after her application for permanent ...

In the Ukraine war, it is artillery that has enabled tactically clumsy Russian infantry and armor to advance. Stalin once ...