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Three centuries without Peter the Great, the mirror in which Putin looks: "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire"
On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for two decades pitted the Russian Tsardom against the Swedish Empire.
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There was ‘no Ukraine in history’ before creation of Soviet Ukraine, Putin says
Zorkin brought the Russian president a map, drawn in the 17th century in France, depicting areas that were included in the Tsardom of Russia, Rzeczpospolita and other states, and underscored that ...