Photo: AFP The Kyrgyz were incorporated into first the czarist and then the Soviet empires, and the country still retains a strong Russian influence ... Japarov changed the sun on the Kyrgyz flag at ...

This is why both those nostalgic for the Soviet Union and the czarist monarchy in Russia can look at the Confederate battle flag and feel a weird sense of kinship. It’s not just about racism.

In czarist and Soviet Russia, the Lena served as a watery highway ... Vadim and I spotted a guard tower with a Soviet flag flying above it. Nearby, a 30-foot-high portrait of Lenin—painted ...

As they passed a cairn of rocks topped by brightly colored flags printed with Buddhist ... To keep each other at arm’s length, Britain and Czarist Russia agreed to make a buffer state of Tibet ...

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Putin Appears at Big Rally as Troops Press Attack in Ukraine Written by CARA ANNA Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally in Moscow and praised his country’s troops ...

"First, we woke up to the Russian national anthem. Then we raised the Russian flag," Rudenko said. "After breakfast, we had an hour of education about what had happened during the evening in Russia.

of the Cold War. on the outskirts of Berlin. That was Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Harry Truman. to divide up the ...