“I do not reproach the Russians for being what they are, what I blame in them is, their pretending to be what we are.” – Marquis de Custine, 1839. About the same time that Alexis de Tocqueville was ...

Nikita Zhemerenko was born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by a single mother who worked as a nurse. She was protective and doted on her only son, giving him, in his estimation, “too much time.” ...

BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The coffin was made from pieces of a closet. In a darkened basement under a building shaking from the bombardment of war, there were few other options. Six-year-old Vlad watched ...