Russia News News Russia » History: 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 Moscow. Once Russian territory, Alaska was sold by Alexander II in 1867 for ...
News Russia » History: Opinion | Trump just levied new sanctions on Russia. History suggests it won't work.
Trump slapped Moscow with additional penalties once it became clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin wouldn’t cooperate with the White House’s push to end the war in Ukraine.
News Russia » History: Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it
By KATIE MARIE DAVIES For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia’s shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of ...
News Russia » History: Russia Vs US Nuclear Showdown Soon? Putin's Aide Breaks Silence | 'Our Test Sites Always Ready'
In a chilling nuclear faceoff, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu have issued duelling messages that could mark the most dangerous moment in nuclear ...
News Russia » History: What makes the Russia-Ukraine war a pivot of history
The war in Ukraine is a pivotal arena for global power competition, intensifying the Russia-China axis and challenging the US-led international order ...
News Russia » History: Napoleon’s Defeat in Russia Was Aided by Two Surprising Deadly Diseases
Disease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers may have spurred the massive infantry’s demise during its retreat from Russia ...
News Russia » History: Trump says both Ukraine and Russia should declare victory after meeting with Zelenskyy: "Let history decide!"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited to ask President Trump for more military aid as the war with Russia persists.
News Russia » History: Beware the Anglo-Saxons! Why Russia likes to invoke a medieval tribe when talking about the West
Take the new Russian state-backed film “Tolerance .” Released in September 2025 to a less than enthusiastic public response, the dystopian tale of moral decay in the West opens with a warning of an ...
News Russia » History: Russia's forgotten jet with tragic fate was 'bigger and faster' than Concorde
After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...
News Russia » History: Russia scholar: Trump’s push for Ukraine ceasefire will redraw Europe’s map as NATO struggles for relevance
Former Soviet Union expert Dr. Ronald Suny, and Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political ...
News Russia » History: In Russia's 'blitz' of Ukraine, the question of appeasement is back
The question of whether Ukraine should fight against or negotiate with an aggressor has been there since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. But more than three years after it launched its full-scale ...