Putin has cited his much-criticized belief Ukraine isn't a real country in justifying Russia's invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday cited a 17th-Century map of Europe to back his ...

Zorkin had brought Putin a copy of a map which, according to him, was compiled by the French during the time of Louis XIV, in the mid-17th century. He said he had brought it to Putin to show that ...

Eastern Ukraine fell under Russian imperial rule by the late 17th century, much earlier than western ... He says his institute has a map depicting the demarcations between the steppe and the ...

By the end of the 17th century the Hetmanate’s territory ... empire stretched from the Sea of Japan to the Baltic (see map 4). Ukraine’s territory expanded during the Soviet period.