BBC iPlayer is currently showing a favourite drama that's been inspired by an "epic book". Viewers say it's so "beautiful", ...

Step onto the battlefield of Borodino, the bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars. This video explores the clash between Napoleon’s Grande Armée and the Russian forces, examining the strategies, ...

Before he stood in the courtyard of the Kremlin, watching Moscow and his hopes go up in flames, Napoleon Bonaparte had lost three-quarters of his Army in the weary march from the Russian border and in ...

Nearly 1 million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a new study, a grisly measure of the human cost of Russian President ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. As it advanced, the Russian army retreated, and by September Napoleon's army had marched 470 miles into the depths of Russia ...

On September 25, Russian president Vladimir Putin provided insights into changes to Russia’s long-anticipated new nuclear doctrine. He indicated that the nuclear mission was being “expanded” and ...

Russian intelligence services are building up their presence in Mexico for spy operations targeting the United States, a return to Cold War tactics by an increasingly aggressive regime, according to U ...

Ten years ago, two Russian nationals, Aleksandra Krylova and Anna Bogacheva, spent a month touring the United States. Their itinerary included stops across the country: New York, Louisiana, California ...

KYIV, Ukraine — The front line in the Russia-Ukraine war stretches for more than 600 miles. Yet roughly speaking, it breaks down into three separate fronts — in Ukraine's north, east and south — which ...

There are 206 National Olympic Committees in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Russia and Belarus are absent from the list of hundreds of nations represented by athletes at the 2024 Olympic Games. Russia is ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. More than a dozen Russian and Belarusian athletes will compete at the upcoming Paris Olympics under a neutral flag, after the International ...