Putin won’t accept peace unless Russian empire is restored, says US ex-defense secretary Gates
The former Pentagon chief says Putin is “tapping along” Trump and remains fixated on maximalist war objectives.
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“Empire is over”: Boris Johnson tells Putin to accept end of Russian Empire in Baltics, Ukraine
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Putin a "f***ing idiot" for clinging to imperial ambitions and advocated for Ukraine's NATO membership, critisizing the West’s current inaction in this regard.
Ukraine Parliament condemns Russian Empire’s Circassian genocide that killed and exiled 90% of population
Ukrainian lawmakers have officially recognized the Russian Empire's systematic extermination of Circassians during the 1763-1864 Caucasus War, highlighting a devastating campaign that left only 10% of the population in their ancestral homeland.
One grandmother’s howl echoes centuries of Ukraine’s fight against Russian Empire
In a Ukrainian churchyard, an elderly woman's memories - spanning from pre-revolutionary Russia through Stalin's Holodomor to Nazi occupation - reveal why today's Ukrainians are fighting for a future free from imperial control, writes former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff.
Russia is the last European colonial empire, but the West looks away. Expert explains why
One empire remains overlooked as the world grapples with colonial legacies: Russia. Historian Botakoz Kassymbekova warns that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine isn't mere aggression but a continuation of centuries-old colonial ambitions.
Shadow of the empire: Why Russia’s indigenous nations fear independence
Shunned both by the West and Russia’s liberal opposition, indigenous activists find new ways to challenge Russia’s colonial ways — and rekindle their people’s will to independence.
Ukraine helped build the Russian empire. Now it stands in the way of its resurrection – Serhii Plokhii
After the Russian Empire conquered Ukraine in the 18th century, the myth of a triune Rus emerged to…
Putin sets conditions for protracted war, wants to reconstruct Russian Empire in some form – ISW
Russian President Vladimir Putin is setting conditions for a protracted war of conquest in Ukraine, the Institute for…
Why Russia is invading Ukraine
Imagine a contemporary French President ordering the French army to occupy the German Saarland, and then say: “Germany…
Recovering the forgotten names of the Ukrainian avant-garde
Prior to 1917, four-fifths of the territory of contemporary Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire for…
The rise and decline of Donbas: How communists tried to make this Ukrainian mining region “the heart of USSR” and how it fell into Russian occupation in 2014
Despite the dominance of the Russian language and the Soviet image of Donbas as predominantly Russian, 56% of people in this Ukrainian easternmost region identified themselves as Ukrainians.
Shevchenko Prize winner Emma Andiyevska: “If you want Ukraine to exist, learn Ukrainian!”
- Ms. Andiyevska, what was your reaction when you found out that you’d won the Shevchenko Prize for…
Inozemtsev: Russian Empire’s special features haven’t disappeared in Russia today
Three specific and even unique characteristics of the Russian Empire in the past have not disappeared in the…
“Malorossiya”: yet another Russian imperial myth salvaged from the garbage dump of history
Where did Zakharchenko’s aides pick up the name for their new utopia, the “state of Malorossiya” as a…
The American style of identity Moscow fears to seek for Russians
Those in Moscow who want Russians and non-Russians within the borders of the Russian Federation to give up…
25 years on, evil empire is less big but no less evil, Yakovenko says
Twenty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev bowed to the inevitable and handed over the nuclear codes to Russian President…
Post-Soviet Russian empire entering ‘second phase’ of disintegration, Lukyanenko says
By attacking Ukraine, Moscow has set in train the second phase of the disintegration of the post-Soviet Russian…
How Russians see Ukraine’s Independence
Although the Soviet Union collapsed more than 25 years ago, Russians are still not ready to accept some…
Why Russia will threaten Ukraine even after Putin
Are the difficulties in Russia's relations with Ukraine really due to the personalities of the presidents? Nadiya Savchenko,…
History, Identity and Holodomor Denial: Russia’s continued assault on Ukraine
On Saturday November 7, 2015, a long-awaited memorial to a little-known modern genocide will be dedicated in Washington…