Ever since Peter the Great founded the Russian Empire in 1721 and expanded westward during Empress Catherine the Great’s reign, Russia became one of the great powers of Europe, with trade and ...

The Russian Empire was proclaimed in 1721 by Peter the Great, the tsar who transformed Russia from a regional power into an empire at the expense of Sweden in the north and the Ottoman Empire in the ...

A remnant from the Great Northern War known as the Galärvegen, or 'Galley Road', has finally been found thanks to georadar ...

during the 16th and 17th centuries, Sweden indeed achieved great-power status and oversaw a Northern European empire that rendered ... which stretched from 1700 to 1721. “In a series of ...

Similarly, the Russian Empire began with the naming of its Tzars in 1721. It fell in 1917. Of course, the British empire was extensive, reaching all corners of the world and was the largest empire ...

Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire annexed most of Ukraine ... the Second Northern War that lasted from 1701 to 1721 during the reign of Peter the Great.

With Russia wearing down Ukraine’s stretched forces and new U.S. President Donald Trump pressuring the two sides to end their nearly 3-year-old war, Kyiv and some of its European allies are ...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

Don’t look now but Russian President Vladimir Putin’s would-be global empire is getting smaller by the month. And 2025 is likely to be even more perilous for the dictator and Russian prestige ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - A new school textbook that likens Russia's war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was "forced" to send troops into Ukraine was presented in ...