aN.B. When Ukraine was a member of the USSR, it is referred to as “the Ukraine”: when it became a separate independent nation it is referred to as simply “Ukraine”. N.B. 当乌克兰是苏联的成员,它指“乌克兰” : 当它成为了一个分开的独立国家它简单地指“乌克兰”。[translate]...
How many countries did USSR split into? The former superpower was replaced by 15 independent countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Was the Soviet Union the largest countr...
What I didn’t tell Volodya Tikhii was that this journey involved more than honoring my late father’s memory. All my life my father had told me what had happened to him and to my grandfather back in the Ukraine (“which,” he always added, “was part of Russia.”) I heard the st...
Galicia has a long and complex history, but the short, simple version for understanding the present crisis is that it straddles the border between modern Poland and modern Ukraine, and while its control has long been disputed, one thing’...
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By Christmastime 2022, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which started in February of that year, had reached devastating proportions. Ukrainian counteroffensives at the beginning of December led to heightened retaliatory attacks from Russia. Just before the holiday, on Dec. 21, 2022, the U.S. anno...
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Ukraine was the next to leave, with an overwhelming majority voting for independence by popular referendum on December 1, 1991, dealing what was essentially the death blow to the USSR. Gorbachev’sresignationand the dissolution of the Soviet Union came soon thereafter, granting new autonomy to Arm...
Russia's strategy in both Ukraine and Georgia relied on gaining the support of the local Russian population first. Not a difficult trick, as anti-Russian sentiment had been making ethnic Estonian Russians feel estranged for a while. "When I was a kid, after we regained our independence fr...
Lenin suffered a series of strokes between 1922 and 1924 that made speaking and governing difficult. He died on Jan. 21, 1924, barely a year after the Bolsheviks finally established the USSR, on Dec. 30, 1922, through a treaty among Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasian Federati...