When the pro-Russian “Novorossiya” separatists in eastern Ukraine started waving a flag that looked suspiciously like the Confederate battle flag, a lot of people — including me — were ...

They displayed the national flag, a bear ... is that an imperial mentality is incompatible with freedom for the Russian people.

That’s exactly the worldview that fuels Russian imperialism today. When the pro-Russian “Novorossiya” separatists in eastern Ukraine started waving a flag that looked suspiciously like the Confederate ...

Suppose a Russian or Chinese president stated (repeatedly ... But the word border is a red flag alarm in political terms as most of the world’s great wars have concerned borders.

And Ukraine, which was supposed to have been captured in a few weeks, has successfully resisted Russian imperial aggression ... rallied around their flag and country and are determined to resist ...

Wrapped in the Russian flag and carrying an Orthodox cross ... feeding popular delusions of imperial greatness by threatening neighbors. The reforms of Musk’s DOGE outfit are set to shift ...

In June 2023, Vladimir Putin boarded a yacht on the Gulf of Finland for a commemorative flag ... hoisted: Russia’s tricolour, the Soviet hammer and sickle, and Peter the Great’s imperial ...

reinforcing this negative legend in Russian culture. Other Ukrainians were also fighting on the side of Peter the Great, Shendryk said, but under Soviet leader Josef Stalin the USSR embraced an ...

The Russian Federation was also formed on the imperial ruins and recognized the ... to storm Central European capitals under the Russian flag. Surrender is not an option for us, because it means ...

The drones also damaged Potyomkin Palace, the 18th-century building erected as a symbol of Russia’s imperial might which ... as citizens rallied round the flag, and then steadily declined ...

The depressing reality here is that while peace talks may be in the air, talk is cheap among imperial death merchants ... of navigation drills off the Russian coasts of the Black Sea while ...

Two of its early outstanding members were Alexandros Ypsilantis, a prince and high-ranking officer of the Imperial Russian Cavalry ... “Palaion Patron Germanos raises the flag at Agia Lavra,” by an ...