Tag: Russia

EU ‘completely discredited itself’ in Ukraine peace pro...

The bloc’s officials have undermined all previous agreements, Russian Foreign Mi...

China–North Korea passenger train services to resume af...

Passenger train services between China and North Korea will resume on Thursday, ...

Did you know Africa once had nuclear weapons?

While the continent is legally committed to being a nuclear-free zone, its secur...

‘Putin smiled’: Ukraine hurries to adapt as US focus mo...

Ukrainian ex-defence minister says conflict provides simultaneous ‘risks and opp...

Valentina Tereshkova - pioneering cosmonaut

Dr Elena Rounkova holds a doctorate from the Moscow State University Institute o...

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk concluded

3 March 1918.

France to expand nuclear arsenal – Macron

No nation could shield itself from a French nuclear strike, the president has said

What Khamenei’s death means for Russia and China

Moscow and Beijing left spluttering helplessly from sidelines as Donald Trump wi...

Mustafa Barzani and his time in the USSR

Dr Elena Rounkova is a graduate of Moscow State University Institute of Asian an...

Hungary to deploy troops against potential ‘Ukrainian a...

Budapest has ordered units to guard critical infrastructure sites in areas borde...

Dame Anne Pringle elected Chancellor of the University ...

Tuesday 24 February 2026: Dame Anne Pringle has been elected to serve as the new...

Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident historian who exposed St...

He was the first historian to calculate the number of Stalin’s victims: ‘Not one...

Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto

21 February 1848.

Lavrov points out Palestinians’ historic ‘mistake’

The rejection of the 1947 partition plan left the Arab population without a stat...