The Ukrainian national flag flies next to the Motherland Monument, a Soviet-era war memorial in Kyiv, Nov. 22, 2023.Photo: EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO Whether under czarism, the Soviet Union or ...

In December, indignant at political manipulation of parliamentary elections that gave an overwhelming majority to the party endorsed by President Vladimir Putin, the Washington Post condemned “the ...

We know, for example, that Russians, long habituated to Czarism, continued to experience absolute rule by one man under Lenin, Stalin and now Putin and that to some extent this reflects a cultural ...

At the start of the 20th century Russia was an empire with an undemocratic political and social system that had evolved over several centuries. This system was headed by an absolute monarch, popularly ...