The very first version of the Europe Wikipedia article from 23 years ago. Credit to @depthsofwiki for discovering it.

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Rare pink aurora over Norway, November 3rd.

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Infographic: Who Did The Most To Defeat The Nazis?

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A year ago Alexey Navalny was arrested upon returning to Moscow after spending months abroad recovering from a near-fatal poisoning.

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A photo taken 112 years ago at the first Paris Air Show in September 1909, colorized by Stuart Humphryes.

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800 yo drawing made by a seven-year-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novgorod.

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Soviet housing in Tartu, Estonia.

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Rare pink aurora over Norway, November 3rd.

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Aitoliko, also known as 'Greek version of Venice'.

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A Threatening Situation, an American comic from July 1914: If Austria attacks Serbia, Russia will fall upon Austria, Germany upon Russia, and France and England upon Germany.

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The Thinking Tree, Ancient Olive Tree, Puglia, Italy.

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Rescued at last right?

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Climate change protester disrupts Louis Vuitton show in Paris condemning the impact of excessive consumption on the environment.

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A 1,000-year-old Viking battle axe, before and after restoration.

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Injured Swiss cow gets helicopter ride from Alpine pastures.

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People gathered around molten lava at the base of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland, September 2021

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New Jerusalem Monastery, Russia.

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Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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Yuri Gagarin and his Matra Djet

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Artist-activist Ekaterina Nenasheva being detained for refusing to take off her VR headset.She was detained outside the walls of the Kremlin, making her the first person in the history of Russia to be detained for participating in VR IRL, 2017.

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A Russian Orthodox priest in a reindeer hide cassock with a gun. Gizhiga, Kamchatka, 1901, Russia.

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Bolshoi Ballet dancers watching the Russia game against Spain, 2018.

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Greta Thunberg attended anti-Lukashenko protest in Sweden.

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'The Major' by Andrew Domachowski.

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The countries most active in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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Storm in Yaroslavl.

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A Russian officer gives milk to a cat and a hedgehog between battles, 1916

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Fidel Castro slides down an ice slide on a rug, Moscow, January 1964

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Vertical garden in Madrid, Spain.

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Battle angel ALITA by Andrew Domachowski

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Repair manual for Hazardous Environment Suit mk. II by Jacob Briggs

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20 years ago the Nord-Ost siege crisis began with seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater by Chechen terrorists which took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and ended with Russian security services killing or causing death of at least 170 people.

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Corviale, Rome, one of the longest single residential building in the world (1 kilometer in length, housing 8000 persons)

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What can you buy instead of 1 bottle of vodka?Three apples,onions, pepper, salt, 400g of meat, 2kg of potatoes, 2kg of bread, 2 bottles of milk. Anti-alcohol poster,USSR. 1960s.

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An Inuit man warms up his wife’s feet in Greenland, 1890s (photo by Robert E. Peary).

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Beluga (sturgeon) caught in the Volga River near the town of Tetyushi (modern Tatarstan), 1921. It weighed 960 kg (including 200 kg of caviar) and was more than 5 meters long.

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Entrance gate of the St. Petersburg Mosque, Russia. Designed by architect Nikolai Vasilyev.

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Moscow punks on the tank during the August coup, 1991.

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53 years ago in Moscow eight people went out to protest the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, their names are: Konstantin Babitsky, Tatyana Bayeva, Larisa Bogoraz, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Vadim Delone Vladimir Dremlyuga, Pavel Litvinov, Viktor Faynberg.

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Before the Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, three billboards were installed with the words “Navalny was poisoned by Novichok”, “There is still no investigation into”, “How come, President Putin?”

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In 1952,a closed trial was held in Moscow over 16 members of a literary circle of students who distributed leaflets about the undemocratic nature of the Soviet electoral system. Three were sentenced to capital punishment, three to 10 years in the camps, the remaining 10 people to 25 years in prison.

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Alien Gothic.

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Viktoria Luise von Preußen in Totenkopfhusaren uniform circa 1913, colorized [1920 x 2832] .

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21 years ago Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

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Abandoned soviet weapons testing site in Caspian Sea.

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Atlantropa,the colossal 1920s plan to dam the Mediterranean and create a supercontinent by German architect Herman Sorgel, who tirelessly promoted his project from 1928 until his death in 1952.

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People eat pizza from the Astro Pizza van (the first American fast food in the Soviet Union) on Red Square in Moscow, 1988.

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In the 19th century, icons painted on dried flounder were popular among the chumaks (merchants who brought salt and fish from the Black Sea region).

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President Bill Clinton plays the saxophone presented to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin at a private dinner hosted by President Yeltsin at Novoya Ogarova dacha, Russia. Photo by Bob McNeely, January 13, 1994.

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Scent Bottle, 2nd century AD. It was found in the Northern Black Sea Region and belongs to Sarmatian culture.

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Sułoszowa is a small village that is home to almost 6,000 inhabitants and one of the longest streets in Poland stretching for 9 kilometers.

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A glimpse of pre-Revolutionary Russia in colour. Stuart Humphreys has enhanced this autochrome of Sophia Kozakova wearing traditional Russian clothes, photo was taken by Peter Vedenisov 112 years ago. It is original colour (not colourised).

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The map of Viking raids, trade, exploration and influence which once spanned much of the Northern Hemisphere.

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The word heart in the languages of the Caucasus and neighboring regions

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Kul Sharif Mosque, Tatarstan, Russia. It is named after Kul Sharif, who was a religious scholar who served there. Kul Sharif died with his numerous students while defending Kazan from Russian forces in 1552. It's also one of the biggest mosques of Europe.

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Bøur, the Faroe Islands.

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30 years ago Leningrad changed its name to St Petersburg as a result of June referendum with 54.86% of voters (with a turnout of 65%) supporting Saint Petersburg option.

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17 years ago the Beslan school siege began, it lasted three days, involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages and ended with the deaths of 334 people, over half of them children, as well as 31 of the attackers.

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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Control Room

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A sign chalked on the front of a shop in the east end of London assures people in 1915 that the business is Russian-owned during the anti-German riots. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive.

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A chart of Rail Baltica's would-be routes.

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Hotel Alicja, Łodz

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Map of the Mythological Creatures of Europe. Created by Cartography MA students of Vilnius University.

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The Buran spacecraft on the launchpad, Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakh SSR.

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Bojnice Castle, built in the 12th century it belongs to the oldest and the most important monuments in Slovakia.

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Apartment blocs in Balashikha, Moscow region.

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“Toffs and Toughs” is a photo illustrating the British class divide; The picture was taken by Jimmy Sime on July 9, 1937 outside the Grace Gates at Lord’s Cricket Ground during the Eton v Harrow cricket match.

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The Church of St. Primoz and Felicijan in Jamnik, Slovenia.

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Czech Mi-24 participating in NATO Tiger Meet 2022.

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Conflicting territorial claims between the newly established republics in Transcaucasia (1919-1920). Map credit: Andrew Andersen and Giorgi Partskhaladze.

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Satirical 2010 poster protesting the Polish elections (vote for the greater evil, vote for Cthulhu).

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In 1911, for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, the German card game factory Dondorf developed sketches for cards with figures in costumes, replicating the costumes of the participants in the famous ball in the Winter Palace of St. Petersburg in 1903.

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Sovavto car dealership selling Soviet cars in Helsinki, Finland 1960s.

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A Russian couple, WWI-era colorized photo.

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With the support of the U.S. , Kazakhstan evacuated today 42 people from Afghanistan, among those: 25 Kazakh citizens, inc. Kazakhstan Embassy personnel; 14 Kyrgyz citizens upon request of Kyrgyzstan; Russian & Lithuanian citizens who applied to KZ Embassy for assistance.

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338 years the siege of Vienna was lifted by John III Sobieski of Poland. The lifting of the siege marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman domination in Eastern Europe.

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The Kola Peninsula,Russia.

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In 1519 Magellan bade farewell to his wife and young son, neither of whom he would ever see again, and the Armada De Moluccas set sail. Magellan commanded the lead ship Trinidad and was accompanied by four other ships: the San Antonio, the Conception, the Victoria and the Santiago.

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Countries with highest per capita emissions, in metric tons CO2

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Approximate ranges of russian missiles in Europe.

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Russian propaganda poster during World War 1; caption reads: 'The Great European war; The great battle of Russian bogatyr with German serpent' .

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Keep Calm and Join GDI

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2/3rd of Russians view torture as unacceptable under any circumstances according to new survey conducted by Levada.

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Gun shop 'Settler' of Chelyabinsk consumer society (cooperative), Russian Empire.

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'Don't honk people in the back' social advertisement about ethical electro scooter driving by Yav collective in collaboration with Urent, Ситимобил and Whoosh.

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Moscow during the August 1991 coup d'etat attempt, photo by Vladimir Rodionov, USSR, 19.08.1991

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120 years ago the First Nobel Prizes were awarded today. They were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.

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People sunbathing near the Kremlin in Moscow, 1999.

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47% of Russians would like to see Vladimir Putin as president after 2024, 42% would not like that per Levada's survey.

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Women walk past a poster bearing an image of the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin and a Bitcoin (virtual currency) sign and reading Go forward into the digital future, downtown Moscow, September 29, 2017.

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Ukraine wide attitudes toward joining NATO referendum March 2014 to Nov 2021

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Prospekt Nepokoryonnykh, St.Petersburg, photo by Dmitry Vasilyev.

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227 years ago the city of Odessa was founded by a decree of the Russian empress Catherine the Great.

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Ukrainian deputies wrote a letter to Putin dressed up as Cossacks

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Russian Special Forces in the 200th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet training with reindeer sleds near Lovozero settlement (Murmansk Region).

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Ethno-linguistic makeup of the Caucasus

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The Lakhta Center is an 87-story skyscraper built in the northwestern neighborhood of Lakhta in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Standing 462 meters tall, it is the tallest building in Russia, the tallest building in Europe, and the fifteenth-tallest building in the world.

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The Battle of Athos took place in 1807 during the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812. Of the 20 Ottoman ships involved in the battle, only 12 returned to the Dardanelles, Russia did not lose a single ship but suffered casualties of 79 killed and 189 wounded.

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Photos of Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov and Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (parents of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin).

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Ratings of political parties in Estonia, Norstat poll.

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