Instead of obsessing over the fictional Cheburashka, Russians should be focused on more important things like the rebirth of ...

This video explores the historical relationship between Jewish communities and Russia from the Russian Empire through the Soviet era. It examines how Jewish populations arrived through centuries of ...

Grigori Rasputin rose from obscurity to become one of the most controversial figures in Russian history. A wandering mystic who gained influence over the imperial family, he quickly became both ...

Russia’s appetite for its past has always been ravenous. Nothing illustrates it better than Moscow’s fixation on Alaska, a fixation less about America’s frontier than about Ukraine’s survival. When ...

"Special Report" Bret Baier delivers a history lesson on the Russian Empire and Vladimir Putin's intent on restoring it. BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS: Welcome back to SPECIAL REPORT. In just a few moments, we ...

History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who freed the serfs in 1861, just two years before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 (the two world leaders ...

Ukrainian-Born Russian Empire Writer Nikolai Gogols Dual Identity Debated From the Archives: Lives Lost on This Day Scholars ...

Vladimir Putin has staked the fate of his presidency, and Russian imperial ambitions, on the outcome of the war in Ukraine. Russia’s war on Ukraine was never really about NATO expansion or Western ...

The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters. By Mike Ives ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to bring back the Russian empire; indeed, he has staked his political fortunes on achieving that goal. Unfortunately, the target nations — the non-Russian ...

Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s, leaving the country deep in debt. To ease that burden, Russia cut a real estate deal with the U.S. government, selling its colony of Alaska to the Americans.