This year's Victory Day parade was a sight to behold⁠— and we might be seeing its effects for the next 16 years.

A considering of differing Russian and American views on monuments, history, racism, and coming to terms with history

If Russia has its way, German history students could be reading a new article by none other than the president himself.

On the founding of the Russian Geographical Society 175 years ago.

“Geography is destiny,” Napoleon is said to have uttered. Shortly afterward he invaded Russia, proving both his maxim and that of one of his imperialistic predecessors, Julius Caesar: “It’s only hubris if I fail.”

When cosmonauts and astronauts linked up in space, it represented far more than a technological achievement.

A look at the history and cultural influence of dachas.

This week's we feature a smattering of things that are somewhere they shouldn't be, including drugs, tanks, mammoths, kids, and (of course) Lenin.

June 22, 2020, marks the 79th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of Russia that changed the course of WWII and, perhaps, history itself.

On this day in 1957, Nikita Khrushchev survived an ouster vote. It gave him another 7 years in power.

Russia-watchers sometimes encounter the idea that Moscow is the "Third Rome." But where does this idea come from, and what does it mean?

This week's Odder News reads like a bad movie, full of forgotten headstones, zombies, and a disagreement settled with firearms.