NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a mutual-defense pact between 32 countries of Europe and North America. It ...
New defensive lines have been dug to the west of Pokrovsk to which, if and when it falls, Ukrainian troops will hope to fall ...
The Irish were never a large community in imperial Russia, but they were involved in all areas of life, including some prominent Ulster folk. The first book-length account of Russia by an Irish ...
The Chinese have already produced maps of Russia with some cities ... In many respects, today’s Russia resembles China’s 19th-century Qing dynasty. Xi Jinping may be reluctant to exercise ...
The 18th- and 19th-century czars expanded this purported defense of Mother Russia to include Crimea ... But Putin has already ...
An admirer of his books follows his footsteps. The casino in the Kurhaus at Baden-Baden, one of three spa towns where the 19th-century Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, gambled his money away ...
Regarding China’s “lost territories,” the PRC maps of the Russian far east issued in February ... challenged China to retake territories it lost to Russia in the 19th century rather than invade Taiwan ...
Aberbach, David 1997. Hebrew Literature and Jewish Nationalism in the Tsarist Empire 1881–1917. Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 3, Issue. 1, p. 25. Manchester, Laurie 1998. The Secularization of the ...
It's just men and women praying together, as the Doukhobors have done since the pacifist Christian sect emerged in Russia in the ... in the middle of the 19th century established 10 villages ...
Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently completing his first book, which ...