Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev told Japan on Tuesday it would have to drop territorial claims to a group ... the main successor state to the Soviet Union, and Japan have never ...
A Russian TV pundit has questioned whether Russia could claim territory now in California ... territories as the Russian ...
Countries are still grappling with legacies of Soviet-era authoritarianism and ... Russia in 2008 that had left around a fifth of its territory under Russian control. Since the invasion of Ukraine ...
Ever since Kosovo’s 2008 unique and contested independence process, Russia has increasingly relied paradoxically on the Kosovo case to legally justify support for secession within, and now overt ...
The Kremlin regards Estonia’s territorial claims against Russia as unacceptable ... They were incorporated by Russia after Estonia joined the Soviet Union. The Russian Foreign Ministry has ...
The Estonian authorities’ rhetoric, including territorial claims against Russia ... incorporated by Russia after Estonia had joined the Soviet Union. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said ...
China's vast territorial claims in the South China Sea ... Unfortunately, simplifying China as a modern-day Soviet Union misdiagnoses the problem and leads to a faulty cure.