CHICAGO -- As Russian forces invade his home country of Ukraine, Northwestern University professor Yohann Petrovsky-Shtern worries about his family back home. They have all taken shelter including his ...

To read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is new territory — through the ...

In a twist of historical irony, Vladimir Putin’s aggressive campaign in Ukraine has cast a renewed and intense global spotlight on Russia’s often suppressed past, particularly its legacy of imperial ...