It’s no Greenland map-projection trick, Russia is 6.3 million square miles of land. It’s bigger than Antarctica. And now you, ... Play the Canadian province and territories map game; ...

On Sept. 13, 1745, the first edition of the geographic Atlas of Russia was issued, and included 19 maps of Russia’s provinces and one general map.

In 2009, Valery Klamm, a photographer from Novosibirsk, launched a photo project about elusive provincial Russia. This photoblog, called “Birthmarks on the map” (Rodinki na karte), quickly ...

Ever since, Russia has called on the West to recognize the new ‘territorial realities’, despite the fact that the Russian army is unable to control any of the four provinces.

A map shows Russia's current positions. Aerial video footage shows smoke rise from the Ukrainian border city of Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast on May 17, 2024, in northeastern Ukraine. Getty Images ...

Our maps below show how the areas of control have shifted throughout the past 12 months. Russian aggression against Ukraine is nothing new. In 2014 the Kremlin annexed Crimea, a peninsula in ...