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Kyiv, not Kiev — How Ukrainians reclaimed their capital
For decades, if not more, English speakers the world over referred to Ukraine’s capital as Kiev, pronouncing it kee-yev. The ...
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European Emigration to the U.S. 1901 - 1910
Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia basically hopeless, many Jewish families left ...
New Eastern Europe9d
Odesa’s true identity: countering Russian propaganda and imperialist myths
The varied realities of life in Odesa over the past centuries are still threatened by a imperial narrative promoted by the Kremlin.
Simon Fraser University9y
Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867
From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...
Metro14d
Rise of Putin’s ‘Eurussian Empire’ over next five years mapped out step by step
The name alone carries a sinister weight – Eurussian Empire – an alliance of two once historically opposing forces, Europe and Russia. This new world order sounds like inconceivable fiction ...