Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be ...

In the view of many historians, the czar’s decision to mobilize Russia’s troops in July 1914, and to enter World War I in alliance with France and Britain, was the last straw, a fatal move ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Yuri Borisov after 2.5 years in charge of the nation's space agency Roscosmos, ...