What countries did Russia take over?

After the Soviet Union entered the war on the Allied side
  • Iran (1941–1946) Main articles: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran and Iran crisis of 1946. ...
  • Hungary (1944) ...
  • Romania (1944) ...
  • Bulgaria (1944) ...
  • Czechoslovakia (1944) ...
  • Northern Norway (1944–1946) and Bornholm, Denmark (1945–1946) ...
  • Eastern Germany (1945–1949) ...
  • Austria (1945–1955)
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What countries did Russia divide into?

Post-Soviet states in English alphabetical order:
  • Armenia.
  • Azerbaijan.
  • Belarus.
  • Estonia.
  • Georgia.
  • Kazakhstan.
  • Kyrgyzstan.
  • Latvia.
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What places did Russia takeover?

Map showing the Russian Federation in light red with Russian-occupied territories in Europe in dark red, as follows:
  • Transnistria (since 1992)
  • Abkhazia (since 1992)
  • South Ossetia (since 2008)
  • Crimea (since 2014)
  • Luhansk People's Republic (since 2014)
  • Donetsk People's Republic (since 2014)
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Did Russia colonize any country?

Russia has never had colonies.”
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Is Alaska part of Russia?

The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. In the 1890s, gold rushes in Alaska and the nearby Yukon Territory brought thousands of miners and settlers to Alaska. Alaska was granted territorial status in 1912 by the United States of America.
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Does Georgia belong to Russia?

Following World War I, Georgia was invaded and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1922, becoming one of its constituent republics. By the 1980s, an independence movement emerged and grew quickly, leading to Georgia's secession from the Soviet Union in April 1991.
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Does Russia still occupy Georgia?

Currently 20% of Georgia's internationally recognized territory is under Russian military occupation. Russia does not allow the EUMM monitors to enter South Ossetia and Abkhazia in violation of the Six Point Ceasefire Agreement.
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What was Ukraine called before?

The Ukrainian War of Independence of 1917 to 1921 produced the Free Territory of Ukraine, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (in 1919 merged from the Ukrainian People's Republic and West Ukrainian People's Republic) which was quickly subsumed in the Soviet Union.
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How much land did Russia take from Finland?

By early February 1940, the Finnish Army was exhausted and their defensive lines eventually overrun. Outside help never materialised. Finland was forced to sign the Treaty of Moscow on 12 March 1940, which ceded 11 per cent of its territory to the Soviet Union.
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How many countries were created when the Soviet Union broke up?

Bush recognized all 12 independent republics and established diplomatic relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. In February 1992, Baker visited the remaining republics and diplomatic relations were established with Uzbekistan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.
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Was Finland part of Russia?

A part of Sweden from the 12th century until 1809, Finland was then a Russian grand duchy until, following the Russian Revolution, the Finns declared independence on December 6, 1917.
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How many Russians have left Russia?

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 300,000 Russian citizens and residents are estimated to have left Russia by mid-March 2022 as political refugees and economic migrants, due to a desire to evade criminal prosecution for exercising free speech regarding the invasion.
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Was Ukraine ever part of Russia?

The western part of present-day Ukraine was subsequently split between Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria after the fall of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.
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Did Russia invade the Ukraine?

On 21 February 2022, Russia officially recognised the two self-proclaimed separatist states in the Donbas, and openly sent troops into the territories. Three days later, Russia invaded Ukraine.
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When did Russia invade Syria?

The Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war began in September 2015, after an official request by the Syrian government for military aid against rebel groups.
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Is Kazakhstan part of Russia?

Destination Kazakhstan, a republic in Central Asia, south of Russia, that extends east from the Caspian Sea to the Altai Mountains and China in west. Until 1991 Kazakhstan was one of the fifteen Soviet republics.
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Is Armenia a Russian ally?

Armenia and Russia are both members of a military alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), along with four other ex-Soviet countries, a relationship that Armenia finds essential to its security.
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Is Azerbaijan a Russian ally?

Russia is one of Azerbaijan's main suppliers of arms. "As of today, military and technical cooperation with Russia is measured at $4 billion and it tends to grow further," President Ilham Aliyev said after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Baku in 2013.
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Who did the US buy Hawaii from?

In 1893, a group of American expatriates and sugar planters supported by a division of U.S. Marines deposed Queen Liliuokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaii. One year later, the Republic of Hawaii was established as a U.S. protectorate with Hawaiian-born Sanford B. Dole as president.
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Did Russia ever own California?

Actually, it's real history — back in the early 19th century, Russia owned significant chunks of what is today California. Back in the 1800's, Russia's presence in Northern California was part of the country's broad effort to trade and settle across the West Coast.
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Who owned Hawaii before the US?

Hawaii was a kingdom until 1893 and became a republic in 1894. It then ceded itself to the USA in 1898 and became a state in 1959.
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Did Russia conquer Africa?

the list of European empires that colonized Africa, one is glaringly absent, Russia. Though the Russian Empire was a well-established imperialist force by the nineteenth century, it did not rush to colonize Africa.
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Did Russia Invade Alaska?

In Real Life, Alaska has only been invaded once, not by Russia, but by Imperial Japan during World War II when they seized two Aleutian Islands as a diversion from their planned attack on Midway in 1942; it didn't work out like they planned.
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