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Russian Empire reached its maximum territory in Asia with the Russo-Japanese War, where after its defeat, Russia ceded Manchuria, southern Sakhalin, Russian Dalian, and Port Arthur to Japan with the Treaty of Portsmouth, though Russia kept the northern portion of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
European Russia [a] is the western and most populated part of the Russian Federation. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the country's sparsely populated and vastly larger eastern part, Siberia, which is situated in Asia, encompassing the entire northern region of the continent.
Russia's position between Europe and Asia is once again a timely subject. On the most official level, it figures regularly in Mikhail Gorbachev's pronouncements on foreign policy: somberly invoked either in western capitals in order to press his vision of a “common European home” from the Atlantic to the Urals or in the Far East to affirm ...
Map of European Russia with neighboring countries, international borders, major geographic features, district capitals, major cities, main roads, railroads and major airports.
8 cze 2017 · The map with which American, English, and European nationalists seek to navigate the world differs in its fundamentals neither from Russia’s Eurasian map nor those of early-twentieth-century states seeking national and civilizational greatness and finding, eventually, only carnage.
1 dzień temu · Extending nearly halfway around the Northern Hemisphere and covering much of eastern and northeastern Europe and all of northern Asia, Russia has a maximum east-west extent of some 5,600 miles (9,000 km) and a north-south width of 1,500 to 2,500 miles (2,500 to 4,000 km).
Russia between Europe and Asia 193 reinterpreted according to the prevailing circumstances of each period. They were used to affirm the legitimacy of the state and define the borders of its sovereignty, borders established or imagined as a purpose of political action.
