Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a ...

said that undersea cables are a “highly consequential theater of great power competition.” CSIS said both Russia and China pose threats to the infrastructure, but that Moscow, as a continental ...

The New Year’s holiday was later revived during the reign of Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia from 1762-1796) but remained secular. The Russian Orthodox Church continued to celebrate the ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned ... a significant collector of Imperial Russia-era art.

There’s a thin line between a pick-up line that is confident ... of the one actor Michael Douglas used when he met his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones for the first time. At least, it left CBS host ...

The high art that collectors did possess was entirely the work of foreigners. In his efforts to modernise Russia, Peter the Great was aware that the arts Only a selection of our reviews and articles ...

Here is the situation on Friday, December 27: China’s President Xi Jinping will visit Russia next year, Russia’s state-run RIA news agency quoted Russian ambassador to Beijing Igor Morgulov as ...

Ukraine is facing critical manpower challenges on the battlefield. An analyst recently back from Ukraine said Russia is trying to exploit this challenge by using small assault waves. "It's death by a ...