Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21 at 88, leaves behind a legacy as vast and varied as his global influence. For many ...

And in January 2022, just weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Putin deployed Russian troops to Kazakhstan under a CSTO mandate to shore up the rule of its friendly president. Moscow’s 2022 ...

President Trump could give up on efforts to end the war in Ukraine "in a matter of days," Rubio says, highlighting the ...

Whether in the form of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union or the Russian ... Radchenko spoke to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s need for legitimacy on the world stage and the role it played in ...

NATO countries, particularly those within touching distance of Russia, have increasingly said that Moscow could launch ... belonged to anyone except the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union." ...

Many states once dominated by Moscow pursued closer ties with the West, in part to protect themselves against future Russian empire-building. Against this backdrop, Washington’s efforts to maintain ...

An American who fled the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built a $200 million canned-food empire is calling on President Donald Trump to help rescue his company after Russian authorities seized the ...

"The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union ... She noted that the Balkans are an "interesting case" because Moscow hasn't historically considered those countries to be "Russian".

Like Ukraine, the former Soviet states of Central Asia could soon face Russian ... Moscow precisely what it wants: division among the West, giving Russia more free reign in its empire-rebuilding ...

American entrepreneur's $200M Russian food empire falls prey to political tensions ... Are Aligned With the Agenda of Vladimir Putin and Moscow’ Since the seizure, Smirnov’s Moscow-based ...

In a conflict that started in February 2022 when Moscow launched its invasion of ... Putin's ultimate goal is to revive the Russian empire and reclaim territories currently under NATO protection.

And it was a key part of Smirnov’s business empire, which includes ... be put under “temporary” Russian management. Since then, he said, the Moscow-based company — which employed 1,000 ...