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 ...

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 ...

Trump reportedly threatened to walk out after Putin veered into a sprawling history lecture during his Alaska meeting ...

The Russian military is using "improvised cells" and medieval punishment techniques to clamp down on poor discipline, according to a new assessment. In the past few months, Russian commanders "have ...

A Russian soldier convicted of insubordination was among a group of conscripts who accused their superiors of locking them up in a cellar in eastern Ukraine after they refused to fight, subjecting ...