We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Russia is not a normal country. That's the obvious and inescapable conclusion one comes to after considering everything from the country's ...

As the chances of President Donald Trump’s peace deal in Ukraine seemingly recede, attention turns back to the question of Vladimir Putin and his war aims. What does the Russian president want to ...

Filmmaker Julia Loktev was in Moscow following her journalist friends as Russian forces invaded Ukraine. She captured a ...

Eight-millimeter home movies and statist hymns from the Soviet past haunt Robin Hessman’s documentary of a contemporary Russia pocked with international logos in which five Muscovites recall their ...

Teachers and educators are vital to the ecosystem of society. They prepare children and teach them to become adults, ...

For Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, September got off to a troubling start. On the first day of the month, news broke that Muratov, one of a dwindling number of ...

For Ekaterina Yakovleva, Head of Documentary Broadcasting at RT, film is “people’s diplomacy” — a bridge of understanding between nations. Speaking to Ahram Online during the Time of Heroes forum in ...

One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

Main entrance of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. (Photo: J. P. Fagerback - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25805489 ...

Putin is obsessed with history. He even spent more than half an hour lecturing Tucker Carlson about medieval Russia. Starting in 2023 all Russian high school students were obliged to study history ...

As a filmmaker, I was drawn to RT’s international audience. But I didn’t expect a clear conscience. Patrick O’Connor, a documentary filmmaker, is completing “The Zebra & the Bear,” about a family ...

“This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history," said filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, accepting Best Documentary Feature for a soul-shaking account of the country's first three weeks under siege. The ...