The Russians have numerous self-modified tanks that have garnered the attention of military analysts. Undoubtedly, the "knight" tank, mentioned on Facebook by the Military Portal, falls into this ...

A Medieval ‘Dancing Skeleton’ Was Found Buried in a Peculiar Pose That Left Archaeologists Puzzled From the Russian Far East ...

The Cembalo Fortress in Balaklava faces threats from a luxury marina project linked to Russian oligarchs, raising concerns ...

With the gruelling war, an overheating economy, and desperately harsh western sanctions, the focus on Russian nationalism has ...

Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in ...

Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President Bashar al-Assad fled the country, according to Russian state news. By ...

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested Maria Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova, director of the Narva Museum in Estonia, in ...

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Reliable statistics were also obtained when the Scandinavians were replaced with the Medieval Russian Slavic populations of the XI century. In other words, lore holds correctly: Russians were ...