I first visited the looted museums of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, in May 2024. At the time, my team at the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit and I were beginning an ...

After a childhood in Russia in which Yaroshevskaya was deprived of owning a doll, she went on to embody one on television as Fanfreluche as she read from, riffed on and interpreted children’s fairy ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

The trio have expressed their anger after Donald Trump threatened Russia and said that Moscow helped the U.S. win World War ...

The leaders of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the left-wing party Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) on ...

Homers Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the ...

History reminds us that the viciousness of authoritarianism only strengthens the artist’s hand.

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.

The Day of Unity of Ukraine symbolizes the unity of the Ukrainian lands and the aspiration of the Ukrainian people for ...

Hundreds of Finns fought with the German Waffen-SS in Ukraine during World War II. New research shows that many of them were convinced Nazis and may have committed atrocities. The finding has ...