Russian women take center stage in ‘Motherland,’ a riveting new history

Julia Ioffe’s new blend of history and family biography takes on the contradictions of female selfhood in Soviet Russia, from achievement to marginalization ...

What happens to Russian identity once the war in Ukraine ends?

The Russian people must transcend centuries of indoctrination and figure out what it means to be no longer an empire.
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Dunwoody resident writes book to preserve Russian family history

David Lyalin, a longtime Dunwoody resident and immigrant from the former Soviet Union, has compiled his family stories into a ...

The operations of the Russian army in the SMO zone will go down in the history of the special forces — de La Chenaye

EADaily, October 25th, 2025. The operations conducted by the Russian army during the SMO will go down in the history of ...

History Today: How the worst hostage crisis situation in Russian history unfolded

Around 50 Chechen militants stormed a theatre in Moscow and took as many as 850 people captive on02. The hostage crisis ended ...

Why Did Russia Sell Alaska? The History of Russia’s Ties to the U.S. State

The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a region rich with significance for ...
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Russian speakers in Palo Alto are getting the tools to become Jewish leaders

Palo Alto JPA director Yana Rathman, who emigrated from Kiev in 1989 as a young adult and now works in instructional ...
The New York Times

Putin Calls Ukrainian Statehood a Fiction. History Suggests Otherwise.

In a speech, President Vladimir V. Putin bent Ukraine’s complex history into his own version that served as a justification for his cleaving off more of its territory. By Michael SchwirtzMaria ...
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The 17th Congress of the Russian Geographical Society

Vladimir Putin took part in a plenary session of the 17 th Congress of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS). The event took ...
Religion Dispatches

Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

On Fridays, Religion Dispatches will present an article from the Spring 2024 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global ...
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Father will spend up to 10 years in jail for child abuse

A father who told deputies he kept his 7-year-old son in a box, which he called a “makeshift room” will spend 28 months to 10 years in prison. Michael Rus, 47, admitted to the abuse when deputies did ...
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Putin’s Off-the-Rails Medieval History Ramble Sent Trump Over the Edge in Alaska: Report

Trump reportedly threatened to walk out after Putin veered into a sprawling history lecture during his Alaska meeting ...