Vladimir the Great baptized his people in 988, converting the country to Orthodox Christianity. Before that, the Slavs worshipped Svarog, Perun, and other ancient gods for centuries - each of which ...

Irina Baranova Russians belong to the largest ethnolinguistic group in Europe, the Slavs. But now, as Pan-Slavism is in decline, they don’t feel so close to most of their Slavic ‘cousins’ – for ...

ARE Slavs and democracy destined not to mix? From the harsh plains of northern Europe down to the bloody Balkans, from the Black Sea across ten time-zones to Siberia's Pacific coast, Slavs have had ...

In major museums, as well as at club nights and its own bar, the collective Slavs and Tatars casts a humorous eye over the region between the former Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China. By ...

The migration of the Slavs into the Balkans reshaped the region’s history. This account traces their arrival, the formation of early Slavic states, and the Roman (Byzantine) response to the shifting ...

Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident. Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early ...