What if you can read them clearly on a map? The same geographic preoccupations are visible now in Russia’s intervention in Syria on behalf of Putin’s ally, Bashar al-Assad. The Russians have a ...

Many people think of maps in terms of their basic purpose ... It is struggling to maintain the physical integrity of the Motherland. Russia does not have the ability to project significant ...

Indiana The top right corner of the Stalingrad map bears the Russian “secret” designation (СЕКРЕТНО), as well as the stamp of the Geographic Names Branch of the U.S. Army Map Service.

National Geographic will show the peninsula ... The map was later replaced with one showing Crimea outside of Russia. As of Tuesday afternoon, Google Maps showed Crimea as part of Ukraine.

They contain a series of valuable contributions to the geography of the Russian dominions ... inferior quality of the illustrations and the maps. In these respects the later volumes show a ...