CHICAGO -- As Russian forces invade his home country of Ukraine, Northwestern University professor Yohann Petrovsky-Shtern worries about his family back home. They have all taken shelter including his ...

History is generally chronicled from the rather parochial perspective of human beings. We are the ones recording it, and in keeping with our species’ characteristic narcissism, we tend to emphasize ...

As China’s history shows, no matter if it is Tsarist, Bolshevik, Soviet, or “democratic,” Russia’s strategic and geopolitical logic guiding its behavior remain unchanged.

US President Donald Trump is finding out that getting through to Russian President Vladimir Putin is not as easy as he might have thought. But he’s only the latest US leader to fail at an attempt to ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...