The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland. The Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. When the Ottoman Empire ...

The Russian Empire wasn’t built in a day - but it nearly collapsed in one. A long line of tsars ruled with iron fists and divine right. But revolutionaries were waiting in the shadows ...

Moldova, which over the past 150 years has been variously part of the Russian empire, "greater Romania" and the Soviet Union, is now led by President Maia Sandu, who is committed to joining the ...

The BBC has uncovered first-hand evidence of Russian soldiers raping and killing civilians in a village west of Kyiv. One woman told the BBC's Yogita Limaye she was taken from her home and raped ...

After the collapse of the German empire in 1945, other European empires, too, lost most of their colonies. By 1989-1991, it ...