A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in World War II. The ...
As schools across Russia and the Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine prepare for the start of the school year on September 1, some 650,000 copies of a brand-new history textbook for students in 11th ...
“You don’t even exist!” Characters in Russian fiction are always insulting each other in this way. They call each other zeroes, nothings, nonentities. The hero of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground ...
Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov presents a new textbook for high school students in Moscow on Aug. 7. (Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images) What will Russia look like after President Vladimir ...
Vladislav Surkov, an ex-aide to Vladimir Putin, claims that, under Putin, Russia entered a new historical era—“the long state of Putin,” in which it returned to “its natural and only possible state of ...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Earlier this month, when Tucker Carlson asked Vladimir Putin about his reasons for invading Ukraine two years ago, Putin gave him a lecture on Russian history. The 71-year-old ...
Putin and Russia have one thing in common: violence. Russian history is essentially a history of violent undertakings in the vast region known as Russia. In the same fashion, Putin’s life has been, ...
The exact sentence in the textbook, which was published in 2023, read: "In the 2020 presidential election, [Trump] again put forward his candidacy, but as a result of obvious fraud on the part of the ...
University of Glasgow provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The Kremlin’s decision to sanction several UK historians for their allegedly erroneous coverage of Russian history shows the ...
Danica Jenkins does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Sergey Radchenko, professor of Russian history at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies takes a look at Putin's speech declaring a partial mobilization in Russia. What do we make of ...