The whereabouts of the remains of the Romanov family was shrouded in mystery for decades until the fall of the Soviet Union.

Jessica Serrano came home and realized her ex-boyfriend, Joseph Castorena, was hiding inside the house despite an active ...

Following the First World War three of the largest European Empires collapsed, with the German Empire being the last, after ...

Did you know that Georgia once had its very own Luxemburg? Before receiving its Soviet-era name in 1921, this prosperous ...

In a sign of Ukraine’s rising military might, its exploding drone strikes across Russia are driving Kremlin commander Vladimir Putin underground, into bunker hideouts.

Russian novelist and philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to resonate with readers for his powerful observations about ...

Of those, 84 sanctioned tankers entered Britain’s territorial waters – just 13 miles from the coastline ...

Aside from being the rumoured “lover of the Russian queen” featured in Boney M’s song, Rasputin was an incredibly influential and controversial figure at the Russian royal court until his death in ...

The deliberate brutality of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has raised a debate about its origins. Were killings such as the ...

Tennessee halted the execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday, his attorney said, after the officers tasked with establishing an intravenous line through which to administer lethal ...

Tony Carruthers, convicted in connection with three 1994 murders, was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning. By Emily Cochrane and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Emily Cochrane reported from Nashville ...

A North Texas man whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for ...