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Mar 15, 2022 · Precisely why there is a dispute over the sovereignty or otherwise of Ukraine is a complex question rooted in the region’s history. In the medieval era, Kyiv served as the capital of the medieval Kyivan Rus state, which encompassed portions of modern-day Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
May 6, 2023 · 24th of February 2022 marked the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This episode of Gone Medieval looks at the origins of its capital city, Kyiv, and how today it has become central to this ongoing conflict. Host Matt Lewis is joined by Dr. Olenka Pevny from the University of Cambridge.
Feb 25, 2022 · Ukraine is the most important agricultural center in the Soviet Union. It’s the breadbasket of Eurasia, basically. When his collectivization policy fails and starts starving people to death ...
Mar 30, 2022 · In a televised speech announcing Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the invasion was designed to stop a “genocide ...
Growth of Russia between 1547 and 1725. The steppe and forest-steppe of Ukraine and southern Russia is good agricultural land, but it was traditionally held by pastoral nomads. Any state that could drive off the nomads and fill the land with tax-paying peasants would expand its power enormously. During the period 1500–1800, this region was ...
Apr 29, 2013 · Plokhii argued that the fall of the Soviet Union is a unique case in the history of empires: “Russia let most of the republics go without a fight, without a struggle.”. While there were slogans and campaigns for independence among the Union republics in the months before the collapse, none were campaigning for the complete disintegration of ...
Feb 24, 2022 · Russia has long resisted Ukraine's move towards the European Union. But geography is also key to how the invasion played out. Moscow, after all, mounted its attacks via air, land and sea.
