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1 day ago · Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast are internationally recognized as parts of Ukraine, but were partially occupied by Russian and Russian-controlled forces in 2014, and declared annexed by Russia as the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics in 2022.
1 day ago · The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by a treaty between the Soviet republics of Byelorussia, Russian SFSR (RSFSR), Transcaucasian Federation, and Ukraine, by which they became its constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union).
At the end of the USSR, Ukraine leased parts of the port of Sevastopol to Russia as Russia needed a deep water port in the Black Sea to house its fleet. No other port was or is suitable in that region.
Jun 23, 2024 · Since then six countries (Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, Afghanistan, and North Korea) have publicly recognized Russia’s annexation of Crimea while others have stated support for the 16 March 2014 Crimean referendum.
4 days ago · However, with the Russian Revolution in 1917, Russia's monarchic rule was abolished and eventually replaced by the Russian SFSR—the world's first constitutionally socialist state. Following the Russian Civil War, the Russian SFSR established the Soviet Union with three other Soviet republics, within which it was the largest and principal ...
Jun 24, 2024 · Anatoly Mikhaylovich Stessel was a Russian general who commanded the garrison at Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War. Stessel graduated from the Pavlovskoye military academy in 1866. He took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) and commanded a brigade in the suppression of the Boxer.
Jun 26, 2024 · St. Petersburg - Soviet Union, Russia, History: Civil war reigned in Russia from 1918 to 1920, during which the Bolsheviks successfully defended their government against various Russian and foreign elements. In March 1918 the capital of the young Soviet state had been moved back to Moscow.
