The cartoon has a king on his throne addressing a courtier. “I’m concerned about my legacy,” he says. “Kill the historians.” So, it might seem, it has come to pass. How we record the past is currently ...

“You don’t even exist!” Characters in Russian fiction are always insulting each other in this way. They call each other zeroes, nothings, nonentities. The hero of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground ...

Ancient Scythian artifacts from museums in Russian-occupied Crimea, which were on loan to a Dutch museum during Russia's 2014 seizure of Ukraine's peninsula, have been returned to Ukraine following a ...

AT this moment, when the PanSlavic and Greco-Catholic Propaganda gathers all its strength to aid the Czar’s government in making another push at the East, and when the Muscovite armies, as a ...

Siberia is a treasure trove for palaeontologists. For more than a decade, Love Dalén, an evolutionary geneticist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, has travelled to Russia every ...

In occupied parts of Ukraine, Russia has been busy creating, rebuilding, and demolishing a large number of monuments.

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