Defence ministries in both countries are decommissioning traditional foot bindings and canvas boots. For centuries they formed part of a soldier's standard uniform across the Russian empire. Then the ...

This is a bombshell, putting to the lie Russian propaganda’s longstanding claim that some spiritual entity called Russia has ...

The Russian empire, otherwise known as Imperial Russia, was the final period of the Russian monarchy lasting from 1721 until its dissolution in 1917.

Majority-Catholic EU member Lithuania has summoned the Vatican's top diplomat in the country after Pope Francis told Russian youths to remember they are the heirs of "the great Russian empire".