Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ...

Full ExplainedDive into the latest updates on the Russia-Ukraine conflict as of June 2025, where borders are shifting, and ...

The Vatican sought to defend Pope Francis on Tuesday after he sparked fury in Ukraine by praising Russia's imperial rulers — a history President Vladimir Putin has invoked to justify his ongoing ...

Mikhail Zygar, a Russian author and the founding editor of an independent television station called TV Rain, has written a book, The Empire Must Die, that, among other things, tells the story of ...

Russia is not trying to rebuild its empire by intervening in Ukraine, Putin said Tuesday. Russia declared regions of Ukraine independent and sent in troops, for what it called "peacekeeping." In a ...

The new Russian Empire. Even as the invasion of Ukraine drags on, Russian President Vladimir Putin is destabilizing neighboring governments in hopes of building a new empire — or at least having ...

The latest example is particularly ironic: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to restore the Russian empire by recolonizing Ukraine has opened the door to a postimperial Europe. A Europe, that ...

Now, as Ukraine's ambassador to the U.N. told CBS News correspondent Pamela Falk, Putin's ambition to "restore the Russian Empire" has moved beyond the annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula ...

Russia's "empire" will fall as different areas it lays claim to rebel over the Ukraine war, Ukraine's defense minister has said, predicting the breakup of the Russian Federation.

Billionaire financier George Soros said on Thursday that if Russia was defeated in the Ukraine war it would result in the dissolution of what he called the 'Russian empire,' something he said ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate the Russian empire and won't back down in Ukraine, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview with "Face the ...

According to Budanov, the Russian authorities will not lose their desire to turn the country into an empire. And in the worst ...