Backdrop

Russian Empire

• 1830-1870 - Circassian genocide - the Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of 80–97% of the Muslim Circassian population, around 800,000–1,500,000 people, from their homeland Circassia in the aftermath of the Russo-Circassian War (1763–1864).

Ottoman Empire/Turkey

• 1890s - Hamidian massacres - massacres of 300,000 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s.
• 1913-1922 - Greek genocide - systematic killing of 900,000 Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia which was carried out (1914–1922) through massacres, forced deportations involving death marches through the Syrian Desert, expulsions, summary executions, and the destruction of Eastern Orthodox cultural, historical, and religious monuments.
• 1915–1917 - Armenian genocide - the systematic mass murder of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I through mass executions, death marches leading to the Syrian Desert, and the forced Islamization of Armenian women and children.
• 1915 - Sayfo/Assyrian Genocide - systematic killing of 1/2 of the Assyrian population, 250,000 deaths.
• 1923 - Population exchange between Greece and Turkey
• 1955 - Istanbul pogrom - a series of organized mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek minority on 6–7 September 1955. Armenians and Jews were also harmed.

Central Europe

• Polish–Soviet War (1918-1921)

• Territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II
  • Curzon line

• Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
  • Evacuation of East Prussia
  • German evacuation from Central and Eastern Europe

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  German territorial changes after WWI and WWII
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  Polish territorial changes after WWII

Soviet Union

• Maskirovka/Russian military deception - The military doctrine covers a broad range of measures for military deception, from camouflage to denial and deception.

Regional interests

Caucasus

• Chechen–Russian conflict
  • Shamil Basayev
• 2008 Russo-Georgian War
• July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
• 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
  • Azeri loitering munitions
    • Bayraktar TB2
    • STM Kargu
    • IAI Harop
    • IAI Harpy
• 2021 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
• Peacekeeping operations in Nagorno-Karabakh

Other

Pantsir missile system

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  Soviet Caucasus (note SSR,ASSR,AO)
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  Post Soviet Conflicts
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  Georgian Civil War
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  North Caucasus Regions
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  Caucasus Region
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  July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
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  2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war

Eastern Mediterranean

• Neo-Ottomanism/Turkish nationalism
• Greek–Turkish relations
• Aegean dispute
• Cyprus dispute
• Cyprus–Turkey maritime zones dispute
• Blue Homeland
• Turkish occupation of northern Syria
• EastMed pipeline

Indo Pacific

• India's International North–South Transport Corridor
• Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
• AUKUS

Central Europe

Southeastern Europe

• Craiova Group a cooperation project of four European states – Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia – for the purposes of furthering their European integration as well as economic, transport and energy cooperation with one another.

Eastern Europe

• Kharkiv Pact 21 Apr 2010 - Agreement between Ukraine and Russia, extending the latter's control of Sevastopol through 2042. It was unilaterally cancelled by Vladimir Putin on 31 March 2014, after the annexation of Crimea.
• Euro Maidan 21 Nov 2013 – 23 Feb 2014
• Revolution of Dignity Feb 2014
• 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
  • Historical background of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
• Russo-Ukrainian War 20 Feb 2014 – present
  • Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation 20 Feb 2014 – 26 Mar 2014
  • War in Donbas 6 Apr 2014 – 24 Feb 2022
  • Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
    • Russian allegations of fascism against Ukraine
    • On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians - Putin’s essay on Ukraine from July 2021
    • Address concerning the events in Ukraine - 21 Feb '22 Putin's televised address to Russia recognizing the LPR, DPR, etc
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine 24 Feb 2022 - present
    • On conducting a special military operation - Putin's ww3 speech effectively declaring war on Ukraine.
    • What Russia should do with Ukraine - an op-ed by Timofey Sergeytsev, published by RIA Novosti calling for the full destruction of Ukraine as a state and the Ukrainian national identity.
    • Russian warship, go fuck yourself
    • Sinking of the Moskva
    • Ghost of Kyiv

Ukranian Foreign Affairs

• the Lublin Triangle (Ukraine–Poland–Lithuania)
• the Association Trio (Ukraine–Georgia–Moldova)
• the Quadriga (Ukraine–Turkey).
• British–Polish–Ukrainian trilateral pact (Ukraine-Poland-UK)

• Ukraine–European Union relations
• Ukraine–NATO relations

NATO

NATO

• Enlargement of NATO
• Foreign relations of NATO

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  Territorial losses of Finland to Soviet Union in conclusion to World War II; Porkkala was returned in 1956.
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  Kaliningrab Oblast
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  Map of Sakhalin with parallels showing the division at the 50th parallel north with the Karafuto Prefecture highlighted in red
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  Kuril Islands
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  Gas Pipelines from Russia to Europe