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Separatism in Russia refers to bids for secession or autonomy for certain federal subjects or areas of the Russian Federation.Historically there have been many attempts to break away from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union but modern separatism took shape in Russia after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the annexation of Crimea. [1]
Britain feared that Russia planned to invade India and that this was the goal of Russia's expansion in Central Asia, while Russia continued its conquest of Central Asia. [37] Indeed, multiple 19th-century Russian invasion plans of India are attested, including the Duhamel and Khrulev plans of the Crimean War (1853–1856), among later plans ...
Hardly a single nation or country has not molded its history to advantage, writes Richard Cohen.
Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed ...
During Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremias II's visit to Moscow in 1588-9 "to collect funds to assist the [Eastern] Orthodox communities living in the Ottoman Empire", [13] Jeremias recognized in 1589 the Metropolitan of Moscow as patriarch. [14] This recognition was "a victory for those who saw Moscow as the Third Rome." [13]
Last week, Russia sent the United States a list of its demands for defusing the crisis: a binding promise that Ukraine will never become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, plus ...
The procedure for uniting regions of Russia (in a broader sense - the procedure for the formation in the Russian Federation of a new entity not related to the admission of a foreign state or part of it into the Russian Federation) is established by the Federal Constitutional Law of December 17, 2001 No. 6-FKZ “On the procedure for admission ...
Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan remains imprisoned in Russia because the U.S. could not persuade Germany to give up Krasikov. Why Russia wants to trade a convicted assassin, Vadim Krasikov, in ...