Harri Tiido takes a look at Wlodzimierz Baczkowski's view of Russia. The Polish author concludes that in order to stop Russia's destructive influence, the country needs to be rendered utterly ...

President Donald Trump unveiled details of the Golden Dome missile defense plan, sparking debate over its $125 billion cost and feasibility among defense experts.

Around 8% of all men alive in Asia in 2003 could claim to be a descendant of Genghis Khan, with 24% of men in Mongolia.

The show traced the history of the Kazakh steppe from ancient Scythian warriors and Silk Road merchants to the rise of the Golden Horde and the Kazakh khanate in the 15th Century.

The Kipchak Khanate, or the Ulus of Jochi, is an alternate name of the Golden Horde, which was formed about 15 years after the death of Genghis Khan in 1227.

Rayfield recounts in detail how, out of the splintering Golden Horde, Hacı Giray, a hard-fighting scion of Genghis, backed by Poland-Lithuania, carved his own new state, a khanate of Crimea and ...

Public Domain An illustration of Kublai Khan on a hunting expedition. 1280. Elsewhere during this time, the other khanates — the Ilkhanate in Persia, the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia, and the ...

One of them is the legendary Abulkhair Shaibani, who usurped power in the White Horde. The two legitimate heirs to the throne, Kerei and Zhanibek, call the part of the nomadic tribes to leave the ...

However fraught and unequal the relationship between the Golden Horde and its Russian clients might have been, it produced a durable governmental structure that lasted almost two and half centuries.

In fact, Kaidu refused to attend his proclamation, which amounted to denying him legitimacy because unanimity was required, and even allied with Berke, khan of the Golden Horde. Thus, in 1266, the ...