October 2026: Russian invasion of Moldova Jumping forward ... Invasion of Finland and Poland The projection for the ...
Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.
The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.
On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for two decades pitted the Russian Tsardom against the Swedish Empire.
The United Nations General Assembly, the United States and many other countries condemned the annexation, and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia over its moves. Few countries ...