Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

Next, show students where Russia is on a map and explain (or review) that before 1991, Russia was a part of the Soviet Union. The communist government owned the country's diverse economic assets ...

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 ...