The Russians and the Turks fought over the Crimea during the 19th century. It eventually became part of the Russian Empire, and then the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the peninsula was initially part of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (Russia), but was transferred to Ukraine during the 1950s. Recent events (early 2014) have resulted in Russia asserting control again over the Crimean Peninsula, although Ukraine and most of the rest of the world refuse formal recognition of that. So Russia says that the Crimean Peninsula is in Russia and the rest of the world says it is in Ukraine. Only the passage of time will tell which is true for the future.
Russia ruled Ukraine for over four centuries.
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The Taman Peninsula is a peninsula in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia. It has evolved over the past two millennia from a chain of islands into the peninsula it is today.
The Ukraine is the largest country wholly in Europe. However, Russia is over twenty-eight times the size of the Ukraine, although the majority of Russian land lies in Asia. Despite this, European Russia still totals to about 4,000,000 km2, an area almost seven times the size of the Ukraine.
The word "Soviets" disappeared together with the Soviet Union (then also called the USSR) in the Nineties. We now talk about Russia and Russians. The Russians did not take over Ukraine; they took over one part of it, called the Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea that had been part of Russia until a few decades ago. Russia had a simple reason for annexing (basically: taking back) the Crimea: Russia's Black Sea fleet is stationed there, and Putin did not want to risk ever being cut off from his own fleet. And that became a serious risk as the Ukrainians became ever more anti-Russian. In Ukraine itself Russia has not taken over any areas. It just 'supports' the Russian majority living in the east of it who want autonomy. It is a well-known Russian tactic also applied in the case in the case of the (formerly Russian) Republic of Georgia. It serves to weaken and destabilize countries in Russia's back yard if they threaten to become too much pro-Western.
Ukraine is the initiator of Orthodoxy of Christianity. But when Russia took over Orthodoxy of Ukraine and set their own leader as the leader of all Orthodoxy, Ukraine changed over it's religious leader to Catholic leader, and that's why they are Greek Catholics, Rome Catholics, etc. They are just Orthodox Christians, who support Catholic leader. Some Eastern parts of Ukraine support Orthodoxy.
Ukraine is the initiator of Orthodoxy of Christianity. But when Russia took over Orthodoxy of Ukraine and set their own leader as the leader of all Orthodoxy, Ukraine changed over it's religious leader to Catholic leader, and that's why they are Greek Catholics, Rome Catholics, etc. They are just Orthodox Christians, who support Catholic leader. Some Eastern parts of Ukraine support Orthodoxy.
Yes it happened in a place called Chernobyl in Ukraine over by I believe Russia. But yes it is a real place
During the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia used its military power capabilities as leverage over Ukraine to assert its interests in the region. Additionally, Russia leveraged its energy resources, particularly natural gas exports to Europe, as a tool to exert diplomatic pressure. Ukraine, on the other hand, relied on international support and alliances, such as with the United States and NATO, to counterbalance Russia's military and economic power.
USSR stood for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. There were 14 countries in the USSR. Russia was only one of them, but by far the largest and most influential. The countries returned to their original names, which they had before the USSR was formed. Russia is now The Russian Federation, since it is made up of more than just Russia. Ukraine is now Ukraine, etc. Each of the countries had a name similar to this: The Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Now is is simply Ukraine. Or the Republic of Ukraine.