How should a politician who holds the greatest power in their country act after losing a war, losing the support of traditional allies, and failing to find new ones?

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said that he planned to invoke a little-known, 18th-century law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, as part of his sweeping slate of immigration ...

if push came to shove and Russia did levy one of its many nuclear warheads against the UK, how bad would the damage be? One website, NuclearSecrecy.com, has a tool called Nuke Map, which shows ...

The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy. The vote against the ...

Touted as the next heir to the cultural capitals of Russia alongside Moscow and St Petersburg is Perm, where a cultural revival highlighting edgy contemporary art is taking place. The new avant garde ...

In this fascinating, fastidiously detailed work, a historian looks back to the first time that the United Kingdom and Russia competed on the world stage. In the nineteenth century, the British ...

with Russian-backed separatists taking control of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas of the eastern Donbas region later that same year. (This area can be seen outlined in black on the map above) ...

if push came to shove and Russia did levy one of its many nuclear warheads against the UK, how bad would the damage be? One website, NuclearSecrecy.com, has a tool called Nuke Map, which shows ...

Here are 10 valuable vintage maps that could be worth a small fortune — if you’re lucky enough to find them. A 16th-century map of the Americas by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller ...

Each day, Mr. Zrazhevsky studies a battlefield map marked with circles indicating which cities are within the range of the bombs as Russian forces advance. For now, Mezhova is safe. “But we ...

Integrating Russia into a Western security framework may sound almost treacherous as the war in Ukraine rages on. After three years of brutal conflict, the notion of engaging with Moscow ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...