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Russian nationalism
- White movementIn the Russian context after 1917, the word White carried three distinct meanings that shaped a movement fighting to restore order.
- SlavophiliaMoscow in the 1830s became the birthplace of Slavophilia, an intellectual movement that rejected Western European modernization.
- Moscow, third RomeOn the 29th of May 1453, Ottoman forces under Mehmed II breached the walls of Constantinople. This event shattered the Eastern Roman Empire and left Orthodox…
- Succession of the Roman EmpireIn 476 AD, a military commander named Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus. He did not declare himself emperor.
- PutinismThe phrase Putinism first appeared in print on the 11th of January 2000. Andrei Piontkovsky published an article titled Putinism in the newspaper Sovetskaya…
- Russia under Vladimir PutinOn the 31st of December 1999, the Russian Constitution placed Vladimir Putin in charge as acting president following Boris Yeltsin's resignation.
- White émigréThe Imperial Russian tricolor, adopted by White Russian émigrés after the Red Russian Revolution, later became the flag of the Russian Federation.
- Bohdan KhmelnytskyOn the 17th of September 1620, the Battle of Cecora ended with the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's father, Mykhailo. Young Bohdan stood among many other…