Russian Empire

Greeks and Serbs formed key ethnic elements in the Russian and particularly the Austrian empires which were multiethnic. History favors the headlines rather than the fine print. Not unlike social media today, what is usually remembered are the posts and...

You may have noticed that when President Joe Biden made his speech on the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan on Monday he referred to the country as the "graveyard of empires." The poignant phrase has stuck to the middle...