On January 15, VTsIOM published its assessment of Russians' knowledge of history — the results turned out to be contradictory ...

From the late 19th century through to the outbreak of World War One in 1914, a series of threats to the Tsar's authority ... of the 1905 Revolution. In 1904 war broke out between Russia and ...

More than a century after the Russian Revolution, the downfall of the Romanov dynasty continues to fascinate and enthrall. The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years ...

Last August, a middle-aged Russian woman with her face covered walked onto Red Square in Moscow and, in the shadow of the Kremlin, scattered handfuls of coloured rubber balls on the cobblestones below ...

Imagine that’!” the Russian remarks. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Despite the Kremlin’s propaganda efforts, he thinks many Russians seem to lack enthusiasm for dying for ...

On its 100th anniversary, Horrible Histories takes a look at the Russian Revolution. Tsar Nicholas II gives tips for survival in Russia's extreme climate, and we reveal that Lenin's European Communism ...