This was soon followed by the German occupation, during which it was attempted to create the United Baltic Duchy. However, following Germany's defeat in World War I, power was transferred back to the ...

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden has refused to set specific targets for civil service job cuts despite the government's ongoing efficiency drive.His comments come as 400 Cabinet ...

BRITAIN is in “no position” to fight a war and the government “must” consider conscription now, former UK defence chiefs have ...

Sometime during 1497, the Portuguese armada, led by Vasco de Gama, while searching for a sea route from Europe to India, ...

Military experts and analysts have sounded alarms over this apparent indifference, which they warn could have dire ...

Edgars Rinkevics said the Baltic state's allies and neighbours should 'absolutely' look into the policy, which it reintroduced in 2023 after a gap of 16 years.

In the meantime, the assassinations started piling up. In 1904, Governor-General Nikolai Bobrikov was the first to be taken down by the Finns. Soon after, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, a relative ...

From wellness resorts on the edge of the Baltic Sea to boutique boltholes in Berlin, we've ranked the most luxurious hotels in Germany that ooze style, sophistication and serenity.

"The Russian threat to Lithuania has been a constant since around the 15th century when the first war between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Moscow took place, and that's what we simply have to ...

The calls come amid actions by European nations like Poland and Latvia, which have reinstated conscription to strengthen ...

and other forms of social unrest actually took place in the nationally diverse borderlands of the empire such as the Great Duchy of Finland, the southern Caucasus, or the Baltic littoral. It was in ...

Poland and the three Baltic nations say they want to withdraw from the international treaty banning landmines due to the threat Moscow poses to front-line NATO states.