A plummeting ruble could threaten support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime.

The casino in the Kurhaus at Baden-Baden, one of three spa towns where the 19th-century Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, gambled his money away. Felix Schmitt for The New York Times ...

China seeks to undo the ‘Century of Humiliation’ in which it ceded great territory to Moscow.

RUSSIAN soldiers are being ordered into battle with only SHOVELS to defend themselves amid a massive weapons shortage. Troops are being used as cannon fodder by Vladimir Putin as he resorts to 19th… ...

In late 19th-century Imperial Russia, there were Jews like those described by the writer Sholem Aleichem, barely eking out a living in shtetls. Then there were the Poliakovs, high-society Moscovites ...

The Great Game was the Cold War of the 19th Century. From the end of the Napoleonic era to the eve of World War I, Russia and England engaged in a protracted struggle among the mountains of ...

7. Russian Tracker The Russian Tracker, developed in the late 19th century, was prized in Russia for its tracking and scenting abilities in hunting large game.

Russia's bombing of Ukraine will go on all winter and plunge the country "back into the 19th century", according to a pro-Putin military expert.

11 bit studios will publish INDIKA, a narrative-driven adventure game set in parallel 19th century Russia developed by Kazakhstan-based studio Odd Meter, the companies announced. It will launch ...

The Alexandrinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, has cancelled performances of its production of Cyrano de Bergerac, based on the 19th-century French play, because it “discredited” the Russian army ...