"Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire," former Defense Secretary Robert Gates told "Face the ...

It is in the United States’ interest to aid Ukraine, rather than face a restored Russian Empire later. From Belarus, which has become a vassal state whose dictator depends on the Russian ...

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Senokosov once told me he could not eat Russian black bread because the taste reminded him of the poverty and tragedy of his Soviet childhood. Empire and the autocracy are closely linked in Russia.

The Kremlin delighted in the controversy, which stemmed from comments the pontiff made to a group of young Russian Catholics urging them to see themselves as the heirs of a "great" empire.

Thirdly, Edele contextualises the war as one moment in a larger conflict over empire and decolonisation in the lands once dominated by the Muscovite state and then the Russian Empire. This ...

"This means that a Ukrainian victory would result in the dissolution of the Russian empire. Russia would no longer pose a threat to Europe and the world," he said. "That would be a big change for ...