For decades, if not more, English speakers the world over referred to Ukraine’s capital as Kiev, pronouncing it ... the Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Empire, and lastly the Soviet Union before ...

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.

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 ...

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.

"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 ...

Both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union drew their national ... cities by their official Russian-language ...