Russia has pledged to respond after it claimed to have shot down eight US-supplied ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine at its border region of Belgorod. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ...

After seizing control of Russia from the Provisional Government, the Bolsheviks had to safeguard their fragile grip on the reins of power. Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end ...

Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Pact in Moscow, August 1939: Von Ribbentrop (3rd from left) and Stalin (4th, smiling) look on A row between Russia and EU countries over the causes of World War Two ...