Putin’s Russia rests on an unsustainable contradiction. It is, at one and the same time, both a colony and an aspiring empire. It can’t be both, however, and sooner rather than later Russia ...

Most Russians seem unwilling to give up the privileges the government gives them at the expense of the country's ethnic minorities, says Botakoz Kassymbekova, a historian focusing on Eastern ...

However, Russia is a colonial empire in every sense, with a power structure designed to extract resources from distant regions for the benefit of Moscow. Unlike other empires, ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

(05/09/22) Vladimir Putin blames his war in Ukraine on a planned assault on Russia led by U.S-backed neo-Nazis, despite evidence that Putin is ‘now mirroring the fascism and tyranny of 77 years ...

While other European powers plundered and divided the continent during the Scramble for Africa, the Russian Empire took the side of their fellow Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia in the 1895-96 ...

For far too long, Western academia has ignored the legacies of the Russian Empire and colonisation. ... To understand Russia, one needs to listen to those who lived under Russian colonial rule.

"Don’t forget your heritage," Pope Francis urged an audience of young Russian Catholics on Friday, in comments that sparked anger in Kyiv and delight from the Kremlin.