Elon Musk, who is doing much of the crushing, has said that he thinks about the fate of the Roman empire every day and ...

In other words, people would talk about the expansion of the "empire of liberty" and never quite mention that millions of people in this "empire of liberty" were slaves.

Its main focus, and clearly the reason for Putin’s reorganization, is the history of the Russian Empire. Putin asserted ... but Catherine the Great whose expansion he seeks to recreate.

Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia basically hopeless, many Jewish families left ...

Today marks the 154th anniversary of the passing of Sheikh Shamil, the legendary Caucasian leader whose fierce resistance ...