In 1774, the Ottoman Empire had to sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca. According to it, the Crimean Khanate formally gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire ...

Here's a map of New Russia: The vast Russian empire peaked in 1866, when it included Ukraine, Finland, Alaska, Belarus, and others. Putin dismissed a question about reclaiming Alaska in the TV ...

From Finland to Mongolia, the Russian Empire and then, in somewhat different borders, the Soviet Union once ruled more than a sixth of the planet’s surface. Mr. Putin has famously described the ...

Fiona Hill told Politico that Vladimir Putin wants to regain dominance across places within old Russian empire borders. Hill said it's likely Putin spent the pandemic looking at maps and treaties ...

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 five maps that ... of the Ottoman Empire since 1478, Crimea evolved into several political entities after the Russo-Turkish Treaty in 1774. As a consequence of the Russian Revolution, Crimea ...