Archaeologists excavating sites on Russia's Taman Peninsula have uncovered remarkable evidence of ancient innovation—carefully crafted bone skates made from horse bones that enabled ancient peoples to ...

“You don’t even exist!” Characters in Russian fiction are always insulting each other in this way. They call each other zeroes, nothings, nonentities. The hero of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground ...

The smell of tangerines, the sound of chimes, the glitter of garlands — these attributes of the New Year seem eternal and ...

Ancient Scythian artifacts from museums in Russian-occupied Crimea, which were on loan to a Dutch museum during Russia's 2014 seizure of Ukraine's peninsula, have been returned to Ukraine following a ...

The dictator of the Russian Federation talked about Ancient Russia. Novgorod was the first capital of ancient Russia, only later statehood flowed to Kiev, Russian ruler Vladimir Putin said during his ...

As the war in Ukraine rages on, Russia has intensified archaeological excavations across the Crimean Peninsula, uncovering ancient treasures. However, Ukrainians view these actions as nothing short of ...

IN JULY 2021 Vladimir Putin published an essay with arguments he would later use to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It raced through 1,000 years of history to argue that Russians and Ukrainians ...

In the centuries-old history of Russia, there are not many personalities whose legacy and military victories had such a significant impact on the fate of the country as Prince Alexander Nevsky. The ...

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