Around 1.7 million soldiers fighting for the Russian Empire died in the conflict, along with more than 400,000 civilians. RFE/RL journalists report the news in 23 countries where a free press is ...

Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one—is Volodymyr, not Vladimir.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...