Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

At that point, however, Russia had lost Kharkiv and Kherson to Ukrainian forces and its army was on the back foot. Ukraine’s ...

Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.

Vladimir Putin is no genius, but occasionally he is right. After the U.S. and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, Russia’s ...

Russia's illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago ... Crimea was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed it in the 18th century.

The United Nations General Assembly, the United States and many other countries condemned the annexation, and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia over its moves. Few countries ...

Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.