He suggested that maps of Russia should show the borders of the Soviet Union, the Russian empire that preceded it, as well as the countries that are under Moscow's sphere of influence.

One of Russia’s motives for invading Ukraine was to regain territory it used to control during the time of the Soviet Union. Poland is a country in central Europe (Picture: Getty) Poland is a ...

Whether Russia wins or loses, the outcome will shift the balance of power within the former Soviet Union, perhaps causing a re-intensification of old disputes with Moldova, Georgia or other states.

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

Twenty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia is changing ... If one were to draw such a map, it would show not the territory of Russia, half empty and badly developed, but its ...