“You don’t even exist!” Characters in Russian fiction are always insulting each other in this way. They call each other zeroes, nothings, nonentities. The hero of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground ...

Ancient Scythian artifacts from museums in Russian-occupied Crimea, which were on loan to a Dutch museum during Russia's 2014 seizure of Ukraine's peninsula, have been returned to Ukraine following a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

IN JULY 2021 Vladimir Putin published an essay with arguments he would later use to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It raced through 1,000 years of history to argue that Russians and Ukrainians ...