believes Putin is inspired by the borders of the old Russian Empire, once one of the world’s great powers. And she says that to understand his motivations we need to go back to before the so ...

In justifying the war he launched in late February by blaming a decadent West for attempting to chip away at Russian identity, borders and ... can lead a “world empire,” according to writings ...

A century ago, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokhudin-Gorskii traveled through the territory of the Russian Empire ... and changing borders, are remarkable for how little appears to have ...

The Empire collapsed and was rebuilt twice in 100 years. It was at its territorial peak in 1914 ... boss of the Kremlin, Russian leaders have had an obsession with borders and have constantly ...

At the start of World War I, the borders of the Russian Empire extended west to the German and the Austro-Hungarian Empires and south to the Ottoman Empire as well as Persia. The Russian Empire at ...

The Soviet Union had reached its peak. March 14, 1979 ... who runs a store in Altanbulag on the Mongolian-Russian border in the country’s north. They bought flour, eschewed Vodka, and talked ...

On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for ...

In justifying the war he launched in late February by blaming a decadent West for attempting to chip away at Russian identity, borders and ... can lead a "world empire," according to writings ...