When Putin invaded Ukraine, experts speculated his ultimate goal was to restore the Russian Empire. But as the war drags on, Putin's attention and military power have been fixated on Ukraine. Now ...

The Russian empire and the world, 1700-1917 : the geopolitics of expansion and containment by LeDonne, John P., 1935-Publication date 1997 Topics Geopolitics -- Russia, Russia -- Foreign relations -- ...

He also established a Russian protectorate over the Kingdom of Georgia, predecessor to the modern-day independent republic of that name. Here too, Putin is likely to follow Potemkin’s lead.

Russian opposition leaders often present themselves as champions of freedom and democracy, and are often embraced as such by well-meaning but sometimes naive Western donors. However, a closer ...

Russia’s career as an empire—in the forms of imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation—began in the 14th century with the relentless expansion of the Grand Duchy of ...

The complexity of these interactions was magnified as the Russian empire annexed neighbouring territories, with their own institutions and traditions, including Ukraine, Siberia, Poland, and Finland.

Russian aggression, at first shortsighted glance, may be against Ukrainians and the persecuted nationalities within the Russian Federation, but the repercussions are felt across the globe. American ...

Soviet and then Russian leaders “were given concrete political assurances regarding the non-expansion of the NATO military alliance to the east”, which turned out to be pure deception. Washington and ...

Boosting Russian troops was an appropriate response to “the aggressive activities of the NATO bloc”, the ministry added. This is the second such expansion of the army since 2018.

Decolonization is in the news. Most Ukrainians now view the Russian aggression against their country as the Kremlin’s attempt to re-establish an empire. They therefore see their anti-imperial ...

With anti-Jewish crackdowns between 1880 and 1906, about 2 million people left the Russian empire for the US; many were Jews. From 1970-88 around 291,000 Jews left the Soviet Union and in the ...