Russian historians wrote detailed accounts of Russia's takeover of the Crimea, Finland, Ukraine, Poland, and other lands, but they did not describe these areas as Russian colonies. Instead, mainstream Russian historians argued that 'Russia colonized itself'. The discourse of self-colonization was ...
Last year was not the first time Putin had withheld plans of an invasion from close advisers. When Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, he did not inform his own security council — instead on one occasion gaming out the peninsula’s annexation with his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu,...
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Four years later, after he became the only State Duma deputy to vote against the annexation of Crimea, the state charged him with embezzlement. Ponomarev found himself locked out of his bank accounts and stranded in the US, barred from reentering Russia. He claims that the charge is ...
Free Essay: Until 1917, Russia was seen as a stable and strong power to the rest of the globe. The country was run by Tsar’s, which are like European kings...
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How did perestroika affect the Cold War? How did Tsar Nicholas II fail to reform Russia economically and socially? Explain and evaluate the economic policies of Joseph Stalin. How did Marxism affect the Russian Revolution? How did Crimea become part of Ukraine? How did Ukraine gain independence...
Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 was a major turning point. Afterward, popular support for joining NATO rose among Ukrainians, who had once been more ambivalent about the alliance. "Putin has constructed...
repelling assaults and even storming government buildings. in february 2014, yanukovich fled kyiv. days later, russia illegally annexed crimea, and its proxies seized government buildings in donetsk and luhansk in the east of ukraine, declaring themselves independent of ukraine. they met little fo...
To add to their woes, large sections of the Ukrainian population suffered power cuts over Christmas 2015 following a series of cyberattacks on three local energy companies. Although widely suspected to be from Russia, the identity of the hackers remains unclear asattribution...