An extensive four-volume work by historian and legal scholar Giovanni Codevilla has filled a serious gap in historical research on the Eastern Slavic world. The work, whose title may be translated as ...

In this epic but sprightly history, journalist and critic Pinkham (Black Square) explores the central role forests have played in the Russian cultural imagination. Noting that “long after western ...

In this video I talk about and show a few interesting maps of the Russian Federation. Russia has been on the news a lot lately, for bad reasons, and it's more important than ever to learn about it. I ...