In this documentary, we look at the origins of the Kievan Rus. The Vikings who assailed the shores of Britain and France were mostly Norwegian or Danish. But Viking adventurers from Sweden were drawn ...

Leo XIV, the first American pope, has somewhat overshadowed the popularity of the American emperor in Russia, acting in some ways as an alternative in the image of the ...

most of his board and even his successor. Buffett, the 94-year-old architect and face of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., announced that the gathering would be his last as head of the company he built ...

In Kyiv, archaeologists found a ceramic Easter egg from the time of Kievan Rus (the old name for the country before Russia and Ukraine even existed) decorated with an ornament resembling a spiderweb.

Tryzub is the Ukrainian word for “trident.” The tryzub symbol, dating back to the Kievan Rus more than 1,000 years ago, has become a core part of Ukraine’s national identity, and a symbol of ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the ... Twenty years later, his successor Oleg, likely his brother-in-law, defeated several neighboring tribes, consolidating Rus and ...

Duality of purpose and multifaceted end states have always been central to ... move ahead with his plans to reestablish the Kievan Rus. Europe must play a role in preventing NATO from being ...

It’s akin to saying Japan was forced into attacking Pearl Harbor because the United States imposed a trade ... origins to the medieval empire of Kievan Rus, the first East Slavic Orthodox ...

The expansion of the empire took it westward into Europe, with the Mongols capturing Kyiv in 1240 by defeating the state of Kievan Rus ... during the reign of his successor Temür Khan.

As the Kievan Rus. For that we need Kiev ... Russia has long claimed that it is the only successor to Kyivan Rus, the Kyiv Independent earlier wrote in an explainer. Zelenskyy is well known ...

In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and indirectly subject to ...

The year was 988, a momentous date in the history of what was then Kievan Rus, when the paganism of ... victim of a honeytrap laid by the FSB (a successor to the KGB). This helpfully offers ...