The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a region rich with significance for Moscow. Once Russian territory, Alaska was sold by Alexander II in 1867 for $7.

An extensive four-volume work by historian and legal scholar Giovanni Codevilla has filled a serious gap in historical research on the Eastern Slavic world. The work, whose title may be translated as History of Russia and Neighboring Countries. Church and ...

How did Russia come to be the kind of nation that it is? What are the roots of its particular identity? Gregory Carleton and Serhii Plokhy take on these questions, and both turn to similar events in the nation’s history and parse out their meanings in a ...

The National Book Award finalist discusses her new book “Motherland,” the fragility of progress and what she sees in Russia’s future.

If turned into actual policy, the kind of hybrid warfare the Kremlin has pursued against Europe for more than a decade, becomes a permanent feature of Russia’s relations with Europe. This is a vision that exposes the limits of Russia’s aspirations – managing chaos and loving disorder – and the dangers they imply for the rest of the world.

Representatives from Russia and Ukraine will be in meetings to try to hammer out details of a ceasefire on Monday. But peace is still a long way off. The long history of Russia's broken promises to Ukraine Representatives from Russia and Ukraine will be in ...