Russian State TV host Sergey Mardan has claimed that Russia is an empire and would occasionally need... Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during the Artifical Intelligence Journey 2022 ...

At the height of the Russian Empire, in 1914, ... The world's 'craziest city' where trains run through houses and maps are useless. The country with Africa's biggest army 6 times the size of Britain.

What Happened: Elbegdorj, who served as Mongolia’s president from 2009 to 2017, used maps to highlight the vastness of the Mongol Empire in comparison to the size of Russia, Business Insider ...

The facility also produced some 4.9 million tons of gasoline—11 percent of Russia's total output, 6.4 percent of its diesel fuel, 5.6 percent of fuel oil, and 7.4 percent of the country's ...

The Saturday Essay; Russia’s Turn to Its Asian Past As nostalgia surges for the eastern conquest of Genghis Khan, Putin maps out his own empire ...

MAP: Russia’s expanding empire in Ukraine and elsewhere. September 5, 2014. By Ishaan Tharoor. A cease-fire negotiated in Minsk, capital of Belarus, between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian ...

Russia's share in world industry was, according to various estimates, about 5.3% to 12.7% (fourth to fifth place in the world). – In 1901, Russia built the longest Trans-Siberian railroad on the ...

On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for two decades pitted the Russian Tsardom against the Swedish Empire.

The revolution of 1905-07 rocked the Russian Empire and brought forth a new form of organisation. Growing out of the strike movement, workers’ councils, or soviets, became a way of organising and ...

The Russian elite was beginning to form a mental map of the multinational empire, as this vast and colorful conglomerate of many peoples, cultures, types of terrain.