This is why both those nostalgic for the Soviet Union and the czarist monarchy in Russia can look at the Confederate battle flag and feel a weird sense of kinship. It’s not just about racism.

Russia’s illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. But Kyiv never recognized the peninsula ...

Photo: AFP The Kyrgyz were incorporated into first the czarist and then the Soviet empires, and the country still retains a strong Russian influence ... Japarov changed the sun on the Kyrgyz flag at ...

The recently-concluded fourth edition of the Moscow Fashion Week took place amidst sanctions, and it told a story of identity.

This article was originally published by ProPublica , a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.Reporting Highlights ...

In czarist and Soviet Russia, the Lena served as a watery highway ... Vadim and I spotted a guard tower with a Soviet flag flying above it. Nearby, a 30-foot-high portrait of Lenin—painted ...

As they passed a cairn of rocks topped by brightly colored flags printed with Buddhist ... To keep each other at arm’s length, Britain and Czarist Russia agreed to make a buffer state of Tibet ...

It’s tempting fate to roll into a battle in Ukraine while flying a giant flag from your armored vehicle. But that’s exactly what a Russian regiment did on Thursday as they attacked under the ...

AFP Sydney: Russian-born tennis world No 12 Daria Kasatkina announced on Saturday she is switching to play under the Australian flag. The 27-year-old said on Instagram she was “delighted” to ...