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In March 2011 Russia laid claim to the southern area of Aibga. ... The border at the Rezovo's mouth was the subject of a minor territorial dispute between Bulgaria ...
Pages in category "Territorial disputes of Russia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
These disputes are primarily an aspect of the post-Soviet conflicts, and have led to some countries losing parts of their sovereign territory to what a large portion of the international community designates as a Russian military occupation, regardless of what their status is in Russian law. The term is applied to: Moldova – in Transnistria,
In June 2011, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Saeima adopted a statement supporting Georgia's territorial integrity and condemning the Russian occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Committee expressed its disappointment that the Russian Federation continued to ignore the six-point agreement signed on 12 August 2008, and called on ...
The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern end and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula at ...
2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lays flowers in front of the remains of the rear stabilizer of the Yak-42 that carried the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey squad. January 1 - Kolavia Flight 348 : Four people are killed and around 40 injured after a passenger plane explodes in Surgut in eastern Russia .
A dispute over Tuzla Island in the Kerch Strait arose between Russia and Ukraine in 2003, sparked by unannounced Russian construction of a causeway from their side of the strait toward the island, which is Ukrainian territory. [1] Russians offered various reasons for building the causeway, but Ukraine saw it as a threat to their territorial ...
After the collapse of the Russian Empire due to the October Revolution, territorial delineation between Soviet Russia and the newly independent Estonia was determined by the 1920 Tartu peace treaty. On the onset of World War II , Estonia was annexed by the Soviet Union in the form of the Estonian SSR , as part of the overall occupation of the ...