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Authentic color photographs of the Russian Empire (1904-1915) | Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky

Russian Czar Nicholas ii commissioned a photographer, one that pioneered colourized photography, to travel through the ...

Three centuries without Peter the Great, the mirror in which Putin looks: "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire"

The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we ...
New York Post

Putin doesn’t just want Ukraine — he craves a new Russian Empire and must be stopped now

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pushed his neighboring allies to support his invasion of Ukraine. Photo by MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images Some critics of our support for Ukraine ...
The Conversation

‘Ukraine is unlikely ever to return to the Russian Empire’: in a new book, Mark Edele unpacks what’s at stake in a bloody war

I know the author of the book under review, Mark Edele, personally. “The whole story” is an unexpected subtitle for a book by a historian. We have long been alert to the fact that, faced with the ...
The Nation Newspaper

The Russian empire must die

During the quarter century of its formal existence, the Moscow School of Civic Education did not have a campus, a syllabus, or professors. The school instead ran seminars for politicians and ...
The Financial

History to Remember: Annexation of Georgia in Russian Empire (1801-1878)

Annexation of East Georgia by Russia and adoption new forms of governing caused the discontent of wide layers of the population. The important part of the nobility was displeased by annulment of the ...
The Hill

The ‘evil empire’ is morphing into a new Sino-Russian empire

The U.S. and the Soviet Union were still waging the Cold War, immersed in concerns about arms control and nuclear proliferation, when President Ronald Reagan, on March 8, 1983, warned against “the ...
Yahoo

Putin Orders Hunt for Property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union

(Bloomberg) -- Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union. An order from the ...
The National Interest

Contending With the New Russian Empire

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin believes the Soviet Union’s collapse was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the twentieth century. Since coming to power in 1999, Putin has systematically ...
The Diplomat

China and Restoring the Russian Empire: Insights From Ancient Rome

Lorenzo A. Castro’s painting of the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Credit: U.K. National Maritime Museum Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and ...
Yahoo

Opinion: Russia Built Its Empire On Lies. My Country Sees The Truth.

Ukrainians living in Krakow, Poland, and their supporters are seen during a protest on the 200th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Sept. 11, 2022. (Photo: NurPhoto via Getty Images) If it ...