T HE NOVEL is dead; the novel is dying; prestige television has killed it. These familiar complaints are oddly comforting, ...

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Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev was one of the most well-known Soviet snipers during the Second World War, with an extraordinary capability to hit during the ...

The sudden collapse of Assad highlights the interconnectedness of a growing number of global conflicts, revealing a hard ...

Moscow's Gulag History Museum has closed, and, throughout Russia, statues of Stalin are multiplying as the Kremlin seeks to ...

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What is Putin’s nuclear weapons threat? On 24 February 2022, in a televised speech heralding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin issued what was interpreted as a threat to use ...

The Sword of Stalingrad, gift of His Majesty King George VI to the citizens of Stalingrad in token of the homage of the British people, was handed over to Marshal Stalin by Mr Winston Churchill at the ...

These were the key developments on the 1,006th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Multistorey residential buildings, heavily damaged in the course of the war, in the town of Avdiivka in Ukraine's ...

Russia has removed a senior commander from his post for making false claims about the progress of the war in parts of eastern Ukraine, according to military bloggers and Russian media. Colonel ...