the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union are the integral whole with modern Russia, the head of state noted MOSCOW, June 12. /TASS/. The Russia Day must be celebrated as a symbol of firmness and ...

remained Russia’s symbol in difficult, challenging periods of its history - under Peter the Great when the Russian Empire was still forming, on the battlefields of World War I, and amid the ...

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...

For Putin, it is also a symbol of the struggle for Ukraine between ... "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire," he explains. "He is not going to talk about the Soviet ...