Russian State TV Lays Out Plans for New Empire Published Sep 29, 2023 at 6:09 AM EDT Updated Oct 01, 2023 at 3:07 PM EDT By Aliss Higham ...

While Mr. Putin may not seek to rebuild the Russian Empire per se, he seems resolved to establish suzerainty over former Soviet states – a highly costly proposition.

During his interview with Carlson, Putin traced Russian history to the ninth century. In his view, southern Ukraine became part of the Russian Empire when Catherine II — known more commonly as ...

Russia does not see itself as a federation; it sees itself as an empire, said the head of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, speaking at the YES conference event ...

VATICAN CITY — The war in Ukraine is driven by the interests of several “empires” and not just of Russia’s, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Friday.

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.

It does. The Soviet Union turned out to be, in many ways, a continuation of the Russian Empire. That was true territorially, but it was also true in a lot of the ways that things got wrong.

Ukraine is unlikely ever to return to the Russian Empire. The empire itself is a thing of the past. It remains to be seen how much blood will need to flow until this reality is accepted by Moscow.