This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed ...
The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...
Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is central to the Kremlin’s political and military priorities; its importance -- economic, ...
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...
-Legitimizing Russia's territorial conquests would set a horrible precedent, repeating the mistakes of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and potentially inspiring future Russian revanchist claims on ...
Do names on a map matter? When they are in border territories, the answer is probably “yes.” These map moves came amid growing chatter and even calls in Western foreign policy circles for the ...