There is truth in his claim that Ukraine and Russia are close kin, as the following maps demonstrate.What is nonsense is the ...

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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...

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"This is the technique that the Russian Empire used in order to quickly assimilate the population after conquering new territories, to make them obedient to the regime," Kuleba said. "The main ...

The peninsula was home to Turkic-speaking Tatars when the Russian empire first annexed it in the 18th century. It briefly regained independence two centuries later before being swallowed by the ...

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"The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation have all practised territorial expansion as a means of power projection and alleged survival," she told EuroVerify. "What we're ...