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Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.
The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
In 2011, thousands of ultra-nationalist demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow, armed with tsarist insignia and shouting the anti-immigrant chant "Let's give Russia back to the Russians!"
Russia’s Lost Empire
An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.
Russia’s Trial by Fire
Soldiers marching in front of the memorial - The Motherland Calls in Volgograd.
Living in History: Stalingrad at 75
Abovian Among the Kurds, painting by Mkrtich Sedrakyan, 1950. (Image from author's personal collection, courtesy of the Khachatur Abovian House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia.)
Top Ten Origins: Russia’s Relations with the Kurds
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers
From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100
Three soldiers at an observation station on the Western Front in 1918.
The Long Legacy of World War I
A memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Yaroslavl.
From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War
A Church in Novgorod Russia
Russia and the World
A 2016 street mural in Lithuania depicting the 'fraternal kiss.'
Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview
Happy 2nd Lieutenant William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Soviet Army, shown in front of sign [East Meets West] symbolizing the historic meeting of the Soviet and American Armies, near Torgau, Germany, 1945.
Top Ten Origins: The Best Moments in U.S.-Russian Relations
Demolition of Alexander III Monument, Moscow 1918
Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.
A Postcard from Solovki
Church and belltower at Usol’e.
A Postcard from the Ural Mountains
Depiction of the eleven-month-long siege of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea, during the Crimean War
Crimea: A General Introduction
Scene in Ukraine
Ukraine, In a Nutshell
NATO and Russia in close proximity again. A U.S. F-22A Raptor accompanies a Russian Tu-95 near the Alaskan NORAD Region airspace, 2007.
NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War
Dmitri Karakozov before his execution, graphite drawing by Ilya Repin in 1866
Crime and Punishment 150 Years Later
Book Cover of For Peace and Money French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars By: Jennifer Siegel
12/15/2014: Hot off the Presses: Peace, Money, and Tsars
Cover of The Baron's Cloak by William Sunderland.
An Imperial Person
Shells of burnt-out busses after a suicide bombing
The Terrors of Suicide Bombing
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"