Russian perspectives on science, technology, and ethics come from two sources: those outside and those inside Russia. Because of the historical impact of the Communist Revolution of 1917, the absorption of Russia into the Soviet Union...

After capturing Kazan in 1552, the Russians, under Czar Ivan IV (1530–1584), took several hundred years to assimilate the Muslim lands of Central Asia. Before the nineteenth century, Central Asia was partly ruled by the Muslim khanates of...

Russians (Russian: Русские—Russkie ) are an East Slavic ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries. The English term Russians is also used to refer to citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity (see demographics...

AMERICA AT WAR Russians, once Afghans' enemies, set up field hospital for residents in Kabul By LARRY KAPLOW Cox News Service Wednesday, November 28, 2001 Kabul, Afghanistan -- Gawking with hundreds of other Afghans at the soldiers and their...

Reading about the airlift of Armenian children for medical treatment in this country {Feb. 10} reminded me again of the emotional yo-yo on which we hang. Bombarded daily by news of the heinous things man does to man, we are sometimes reminded of the...

EASTERN PROMISES Running Time 96 minutes Directed by David CronenbergWritten by Steve KnightStarring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, from a screenplay by Steve Knight, is the 64-year-old Mr. Cronenberg’s second film with Viggo Mortensen­. The first, A History of Violence, made the...

Imperialism: Russia's tinhorn "conquest" of the North Pole Monday was a little comic, except for what it says about a vainglorious regime seeking to grab more energy resources to use coercively. It should be rebuffed.If there was ever an unnecessary voyage to be made, it...