All the nobility of the Russian Empire, including the tsar's family, liked to spend their holidays on the southern Russian ...

Islam in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years and is deeply woven into the nation’s heritage. Though Christianity is ...

Near the site of the present-day city of Zhovti Vody on the Zhovta River in Ukraine, the forces of the Zaporozhian Host and Crimean Khanate under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Colonels ...

Ğazı II Giray was a khan of the Crimean Khanate. Born in 1554, he distinguished himself in the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–90), gaining the trust of his Ottoman suzerains. He was appointed khan in 1588, ...

In 1571, a massive Crimean army of 120,000 soldiers marched on Moscow. With an army of only 6,000 troops, the Russians stood ...

These diverse monetary objects, along with the others in this display, reflect Ukraine’s distinct history over the last millennia. During the 11th and 12th centuries, Kyiv was the capital of a ...

After abandoning her attempts to reform Russia’s legal and educational systems, Catherine turned instead to ruthless expansionism, taking part in the divisions of Poland while also detaching the ...

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections has left many across the world wondering about what Washington's foreign policy is going to look like, especially regarding Ukraine.

61-year-old Ediye Muslimova, Editor-in-Chief of the Crimean Tatar children's magazine Armanchyk, was abducted in temporarily occupied Crimea on 21 November. Details: Muslimova's niece reported that ...

MOSCOW, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Russia has arrested two suspects believed to be behind the assassination of a senior naval officer who was killed by a car bomb in Crimea last week, investigators said ...