The region was absorbed by an expanding Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century.
Is the Russian Federation basically a Russian empire, with a few non-Russians living in it as second-class citizens?
As a liberal city open to the world, Odessa was an aberration by the 19th-century standards of the Russian empire.
On the one hand, Poland was dominated by the USSR during the last century, and by the Russian Empire before World War I.
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Georgia was divided between the Ottoman and Persian empires for centuries until it became part of the Russian Empire in the 19th century.
After being conquered by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century, Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, was successfully integrated into the Russian empire.
Only after 42 years did the czarist army finally subdue the mountainous region and make it part of the expanding Russian empire, in 1859.
The discord dates back to the 1800s, when an expanding Russian empire managed to wrest control of most of what is modern-day Azerbaijan from Iran.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the fascist Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), frequently endorses the restoration of the historical Russia within the boundaries of the Russian empire.
He has an abiding fascination with the Russian empire and the respects in which it resembled and differed from its British, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian competitors.
The East has always had very close ties with the Russian Empire and joined the Soviet Union shortly after the Great October Revolution in 1917.
They invaded a small, democratic neighbor to gain more control over the world's oil supply, intimidate other neighbors, and further their ambitions of re-assembling the Russian empire.
In 1860 the Finns, already autonomous within the Russian Empire, were granted their own currency, the markka, a foretaste of the independence that would follow in 1917.
The first occasion demonstrated to the world that Japan had arrived as a legitimate military power with its stunning defeat of the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5.
The story of his quest to discover Gannibal's identity in places as far-flung as Novoselenginsk on the Chinese border, and Pskov at the other end of the Russian empire, is engagingly told.
And the visit of such a powerful man, you know, it just gives us boost, and also we feel that we are not nobodies and we are not on the outskirts of the former Russian empire.
However, the most noticeable representation of the Russian theme during this fashion week was the show by a Japanese designer, Tadashi Shoji, and his collection of dresses inspired by the fall of the Russian Empire.
There can be no stability and prosperity in the Russian empire, now called the Russian Federation, until Russia's government honestly and unequivocally decides finally to decolonise and allows plebiscites to determine which autonomous republics or regions want to remain part of the Russian Federation, and which would rather say goodbye.
In most of the former empire, Russian language and culture are still in headlong retreat.
The success story, of sorts, is in the inner part of the former Soviet empire, where Russian clout is steadily growing.
Part coming-of-age story and part adventure, Kerbouchard travels from Brittany to Moorish Spain to Central Europe to the Russian Steppes to the Byzantine Empire, and features more than a few exciting action scenes and battles.
He goes on to argue, in a sweep that extends to Russia's privatisation programmes and left-over Russian communities in every last corner of the ex-Soviet empire, that the failure in Chechnya was symptomatic of a wider decline in Russia.
She was never on her knees, never humiliated by the Soviet collapse, even though she was born in Sebastopol a Black Sea port redolent with past Russian glory when it was part of the Soviet empire, and went to school there when it had become part of Ukraine.
Russian history was of little help, since most of it involved empire-building abroad and totalitarianism at home, on both of which Russia was supposed to have turned its back.
And look how they turn to their profit as well as that of the same Russian-speaking minorities they want to bring back into the bosom of the Empire the argument of the "duty to intervene" that might justify the exactions, in Gori and elsewhere, of the Russian army and its militias.
And look how they turn to their profit -- as well as that of the same Russian-speaking minorities they want to bring back into the bosom of the Empire -- the argument of the "duty to intervene" that might justify the exactions, in Gori and elsewhere, of the Russian army and its militias.
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