Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact between Moscow and ...

Iran and its hapless proxies have now become a liability to Putin’s machinations to recreate a Peter the Great-like Russian empire. All of this is the result of Putin’s ill-fated decision to ...

U.S. private equity firm TPG and Russian state-owned firms Rosatom and Transneft on Friday won their bid to block jailed ...

Iran, of course, is the most extreme case for ... way that is most reminiscent of the Soviet control over the former Russian empire despite a very different ideological base.

If Russia’s war in Ukraine is about identity and empire, its presence in Syria ... In terms of rolling back Russian power in the region, the fall of al-Assad, together with the degradation of Iran’s ...

This was true then and is true now, largely because Russian President Vladimir Putin's attack on Ukraine is part of a broader agenda, an attempt to restore, if not the Soviet empire itself ...

Regime change is a profound blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin ... Instead, Assad and his retinue fled to Moscow. Iran’s mullah regime took Assad’s implosion similarly hard.

If Russia’s war in Ukraine is about identity and empire ... terms of rolling back Russian power in the region, the fall of Assad, together with the degradation of Iran’s “axis of resistance ...

Despite the bearish demand outlook, tightening supply from Russia and Iran due to expanding Western ... spot premiums driven by reduced Iranian and Russian shipments, which tightened the Middle ...

16th-18th Centuries - Safavid Iran (and successive Iranian Afsharid ... 1801-1804 - Most of present-day Georgia becomes part of the Russian Empire. 1879 - History's best-known Georgian, future ...