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Inaugural Three-Minute Thesis competition celebrates graduate research

Stanford Daily 21 Apr 2025
The average thesis defense lasts around two hours ... Tamri Matiashvili, a fourth-year student in economics, placed second for her presentation on the first-ever female physicians from the Russian Empire and their lasting impact on the medical field ... E ... .
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New Great Game focuses on Iran and Pakistan

Dawn 21 Apr 2025
To prevent an armed conflict between British India and the Russian empire, both powers decided to declare Afghanistan as a buffer state — until the end of the Cold War reshaped Central, South, and West Asian dynamics.
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New book explores the culture, mythology and history of the bagpipes

RNZ 21 Apr 2025
From the Roman Empire to Russian Tsars and the Scottish Highlands, Richard McLauchlan's new book The Bagpipes ... "I saw the lone piper high up on the parapets at Edinburgh Castle and heard him play his lament ... deeply local and wildly global ... ....
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A Fascinating Nation at the Crossroads of Civilizations

The American Spectator 21 Apr 2025
Through many centuries, Azerbaijan has absorbed influences from the Persians, Ottomans, Russians, and Europeans, yet it ... It was once part of the Russian Empire and later absorbed into the Soviet Union.
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Late–Imperial Maladies, by Patrick Lawrence

The Unz Review 20 Apr 2025
... me that Russian President Vladimir Putin is nothing more than a tyrant intent on reconstructing the Czarist empire when, statesman to stateswoman, she is unworthy of carrying Putin’s attaché case.
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Less Soviet, more inspiring: Kyrgyzstan seeks new anthem

The Peninsula 20 Apr 2025
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan ... The Kyrgyz were incorporated into first then Tsarist and then the Soviet empires and the country still retains a strong Russian influence ... A poet friend wrote the text ... 'State in our own right' ... .
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In Ukraine, Ultra-Nationalists Are the ‘Good Guys’

Consortium News 20 Apr 2025
Top Russian ... Russian political elites, both during the times of the Russian Empire and the USSR, viewed Ukrainians as “younger brothers”—naive, reckless, in need of guidance and instruction.
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Why does Putin insist Ukrainians and Russians are ‘one people’?

Asiatimes 19 Apr 2025
By the late 18th century, the Russian Empire had destroyed Poland-Lithuania in a series of territorial annexations and wars ... Breaking free from this “mental empire” demands a deep shift in how ...
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Patrick Lawrence: Late–Imperial Maladies

Scheerpost 19 Apr 2025
... me that Russian President Vladimir Putin is nothing more than a tyrant intent on reconstructing the Czarist empire when, statesman to stateswoman, she is unworthy of carrying Putin’s attaché case.
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Why you’ll love Europe’s oldest wine region — with new direct flights

The Times/The Sunday Times 19 Apr 2025
I found stained-glass windows designed in colourful Persian styles, while portraits depicted Erekle II in Persian and imperial Russian clothing. The tragic yet heroic king was caught between empires, fighting over 200 battles on all sides.
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From tolerance to ticking time bomb the migrant lesson for Russia

Beijing News 18 Apr 2025
Later, as the Russian Empire expanded, new peoples were integrated into the state on the basis of loyalty and military service ... It functioned while Central Asian peoples were part of a shared state structure - the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
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Paphos mayor and bishop at loggerheads over Pontic event

CyprusMail 18 Apr 2025
... violence was part of the Caucasian front of World War I, alleging that ethnic Greeks in the Black Sea region behind Ottoman lines were conducting espionage activities on behalf of the Russian empire.
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Central Asia beware: You may be Putin’s next target after Ukraine

Asiatimes 17 Apr 2025
For Vladimir Putin, Ukraine is not merely a neighboring state but a missing piece of a grand historical puzzle, the central piece to rebuilding the Russian empire.
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Ukraine support rally held in Wellsboro

Potter Leader-Enterprise 17 Apr 2025
The Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred on February 24, 2022 ... and 43,000 Russian casualties ... “Vladimir Putin and the evil empire is trying to repatriate these children and make them Russian,” he said.
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