In this video I talk about and show a few interesting maps of the Russian Federation. Russia has been on the news a lot ...

Another map superimposes the outline of the empire over present-day boundaries, including the entirety of China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and many smaller states as well as large swathes of Russia ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said an old map proves Ukraine isn't a real country. But the document in fact shows the area near Kyiv labeled as "Ukraine." Putin has cited his much-criticized ...

The first alliance between it and Russia came all the way back in the late 16th century when King Heraclius II of Eastern Georgia signed the Treaty of Georgievsk with the Russian Empire.

In 2014 the Kremlin illegally annexed Crimea and sent troops into the Donbas, a predominantly Russian-speaking region in eastern Ukraine (see map 7). Russia’s separatist proxies—led by the ...