"It's new Russia. Kharkiv, Lugansk, Donetsk, Odessa were not part of Ukraine in Czarist ... with the Cossack Hetmanate and the Ottoman Empire. In 1922 it was made part of the Ukrainian Soviet ...

"Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire," former Defense Secretary Robert Gates told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." ...

stated that the leadership of the Russian Federation sees its country as an empire similar to the Soviet Union but with the ...

Former Soviet states and Balkan countries are the primary targets ... US democracy from the threat of disinformation. "The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation have all ...

Latvia and Lithuania—three Baltic countries making up a chunk of NATO's eastern flank on the Russian border—were part of both the former USSR and the Russian Empire, as well as Moldova ...