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 ...

Russia is the largest country in the world, even after the breakup of the Soviet Union created 14 other countries out of the territory it previously ... Russia is still a gigantic colonial empire.

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 ...

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

Filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski urges Ukrainians to confront their complicity in Moscow’s colonial past, emphasizing that dismantling the Russian Federation is crucial to ending this legacy. Radynski also ...