Russian President Vladimir Putin has draped himself in old-fashioned, medieval conceptions of Russian history to add symbolic weight to his authoritarian government. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko ...
Russian archaeologists say they have pinpointed a long-lost medieval burial ground, turning a patch of ordinary landscape ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Well, that is what the Kremlin wants the world to believe. Take the new Russian ...
If you're trying to make sense of events in Russia, it might be best to frame it in medieval terms. Think of the mutiny by Prigozhin and the Wagner Group less as an attempted coup by mercenaries and ...
Islamophobia Studies Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (SPRING 2023), pp. 141-157 (17 pages) The medieval and modern Russian experience with the Muslim world has been systemically marked by Islamophobia. Yet, ...
Beginning in September 2025, Russian middle and high school students will be handed a new textbook titled “My Family.” Published in March 2025, the textbook’s co-author Nina Ostanina, chair of the ...