Who rules the world’s clocks? You might assume countries with mammoth size would. But here’s a surprise: France takes the ...

An interview with Diana T. Kudaibergen on power, identity, and nation-building in Kazakhstan.

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

ST. PETERSBURG, July 3. /TASS/. Russian scientists have discovered the largest emperor penguin colony in recorded history near the Mirny Antarctic station, with a congregation of approximately 18,700 ...

Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would ...

In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through ...

Even Niall Ferguson, an apologist for the West’s colonial depredations, is forced to concede that the ‘decline of the West is ...

At the height of its power, Islam once controlled vast territories: from Morocco to China and from Russia down to sub-Saharan Africa. The rise of the European colonial empires, notably those of ...

Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian-backed ...

To explore the colonial impact on the Indian economy ... were chiefly fought with the revenues of our Indian empire — but in pursuance of a British policy, with which the interests of India were but ...

Canada is the primary supplier to India of peas of lentils; two of the country’s most critical food staples. Canola, one of ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?