The real estate developer Steve Witkoff, whom President Trump made his plenipotentiary in foreign conflicts, is either ...

The Russian Empire did possess them, but only after taking them from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Crimean Tatars and the Ukrainian Cossacks. Either Witkoff doesn’t understand what ...

Like Diderot, he glosses over the worst that Catherine did. He gets quite a few details wrong: Cossacks descend more from runaway serfs than from Tatars; Moscow may be no warmer than St Petersburg, ...

Russia made a deal with the Cossack leadership to persuade the millions of Ukrainian and Russian Cossacks living in Russia to support the Russian war effort in Ukraine. Prior to 2024 Russia had not ...

Crimean Tatars, deported en masse by Josef Stalin in 1944 and subjected to Russian occupation 70 years later, have no illusions about Kremlin rule, but now fear the United States could push ...

But as the economist Brad DeLong likes to say, “the Cossacks work for the Czar.” In other words, the blame for misdeeds rests with the top man, who often uses seemingly uncontrollable minions ...