Curated category
Russian irredentism
- Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)On the 24th of February 2022, Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation that started the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II.
- Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblastsVast regions to the north of the Black Sea were once known as the Wild Fields. In the 15th century, the entire area of the northern coast came under the…
- South OssetiaIn the 13th century, a nomadic Iranian tribe known as the Alans faced destruction from Mongol armies. Survivors fled south across the Caucasus Mountains into…
- PutinismThe phrase Putinism first appeared in print on the 11th of January 2000. Andrei Piontkovsky published an article titled Putinism in the newspaper Sovetskaya…
- United RussiaIn the autumn of 1999, a political bloc called Unity emerged three months before the State Duma elections. Kremlin insiders created this group to counter the…
- Republic of Crimea (Russia)In February 2014, Russian leadership decided to start working on returning Crimea to Russia following the Ukrainian revolution that ousted President Viktor…
- Russian-occupied territoriesThe 1992 battle of Bender turned the Dniester river into a blood-soaked boundary. Russian military intervention in June 1992 secured victory for separatists…
- 2014 pro-Russian unrest in UkraineOn the 21st of November 2013, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union.