Like Diderot, he glosses over the worst that Catherine did. He gets quite a few details wrong: Cossacks descend more from runaway serfs than from Tatars; Moscow may be no warmer than St Petersburg, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s wife Sibel Tatar on Wednesday night issued a second condemnation of the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by children ...

A Jesuit Cossack: A Memoir by Louis J. Gallagher, S.J., also recounts Fr. Gallagher's role as a diplomatic courier—for both the Soviet government and the Vatican—in bringing the remains of ...