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The name alone carries a sinister weight – Eurussian Empire – an alliance of two once historically opposing forces, Europe and Russia. This new world order sounds like inconceivable fiction ...

Mikhail Zygar, a Russian author and the founding editor of an independent television station called TV Rain, has written a book, The Empire Must Die, that, among other things, tells the story of ...

The Russian empire, otherwise known as Imperial Russia, was the final period of the Russian monarchy lasting from 1721 until its dissolution in 1917.

On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for two decades pitted the Russian Tsardom against the Swedish Empire.

Stiff-arming Russia at every turn, Ukraine emerged as the biggest hurdle to the Kremlin’s efforts to reconsolidate its empire and undo the independence movements of the early 1990s.

The last Russian Empire was undone by the weakness of its economy, and this one will be as well if Putin continues his aggression in Ukraine, writes Matthew Lynn.

Moreover, a Russian empire is intrinsically an inherent extra-legal form of rule whose basis is violence (as well as Dostoevsky's triune formula of mystery, miracle and authority).

In Russia’s empire, meanwhile, neither its Siberian provinces nor the newly “reconciled” lands of today’s Ukraine and Belarus tried to secede.

During the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774, Crimea was probably Russia’s main goal. By 1771, Crimean Tatars refused to fight for Turkey, and the Ottoman leaders didn’t have enough military ...

Anton Bakov says he needs just a few square miles of land to restore the Russian Empire. The millionaire businessman’s search for a place to revive the Romanov dynasty that ruled Russia for 300 ...