Russian literature has always been known for its gigantic 19th century novels, but many of the same authors of those doorstoppers were also masters of the short story. These stories, heartbreaking or ...

Xi Jinping may be reluctant to exercise China’s right to reclaim its historically Chinese territories today, but he must know ...

This substantial anthology of Russian writing on Russian music features the most influential critics of music in nineteenth-century Russia. They wrote on the first two generations of Russian composers ...

Ben Taub reports from the wilds of Norway. Plus: Donald Trump’s new “voodoo economics”; the continuing chaos at Columbia; and ...

Buildings resembling fairytale Russian ‘terems’ can be found in Karelia and the Urals. But, the most unusual ones are in the ...

If China is genuinely concerned with reclaiming territory, why not focus on the territories ceded to Russia in the 19th century, rather than Taiwan? Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te has recently asked ...

At times of tension between Russia and China, that stretch has been contentious, but for a while in the 1880s, a raft of fortune-seekers descended, searching for gold, from the encampment on the ...

Features of Abovyan include a cultural palace, a library, a recently renovated theatre and a creative centre for children ...

Two Belarusian poems from the 19th Century have been declared "extremist ... Martsinkevich's poems relate to a nationalist uprising against the Russian Empire. Authoritarian Belarus leader ...

Lai suggested that if China is truly concerned about this, it should also seek to reclaim the land it ceded to Russia in the 19th century. China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, despite the fact ...

He pointed to mid-19th-century treaties that saw China's Qing Dynasty give up large tracts of territory in the northeastern region of Manchuria to Tsarist Russia. He quipped that China should take ...

TAIPEI, Sept 2 (Reuters) - If China's claims on Taiwan are about territorial integrity then it should also take back land from Russia signed over by the last Chinese dynasty in the 19th century ...