The dramatic end of Nicholas II’s reign in Russia was one of the turning points of the early 20th century. Could he have ...

The Japanese author Tsuyoshi Hasegawa successfully argues that, far from being inevitable, the blame for the fall of Nicholas ...

Putin of Russia last year after U.S. intelligence agencies said a Russian military unit was preparing to send explosive packages on cargo planes. By David E. Sanger The students in a summer ...

Pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder broke his own box office record for single ticket sales pre-opening night ...

The Biden administration is cracking down on the Russian “shadow fleet” and taking ... been fighting to hold on to territory it seized last summer. An image depicting a famous 19th-century ...

Earlier, the last written notes of a North Korean soldier revealed that Pyongyang’s troops are being used as bait by Russian troops to lure out Ukrainian drones on the battlefield. Flights ...

RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...