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Yeltsin oversaw the diminution of the Russian empire created by the czars and the Communists to the point that he ruled over less than half the territory governed by Peter the Great. And that imperial contraction was achieved largely without bloodshed. Yeltsin's era, then, marked the end of the...
Constitutional revision would allow greater military cooperation between the two countries. The result would be a safer Japan, and one with a stronger voice in regional affairs. But it won't mark a return to the imperial ideology of World War II. To the rest of the world, a post...
“It is kind of a funny coincidence,” says Plokhii, who in 2005 wrote “Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History.”
Camouflage is not all it seems. When man first daubed himself in mud, dressing to fool the eye was the art of the hunter rather than of the prey. Its use in military defense, according to "Camouflage," an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum until November, evolved as a...
Such harsh punishment of dissent is not surprising in Vietnam, where the Communist Party remains firmly in control despite 20 years of economic liberalization. What was new is that the court spectacle in the ancient imperial capital of Hue was so open. Politically sensitive trials especially tend to be held...