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ely is the main guarantor of the security of the Russian world."4 In 2014, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin dredged up the tsarist-era term Novorossiya to de- scribe a large swath of southeastern Ukraine that he hinted might be annexed. Suddenly, the Novorossiya idea began appearing in Russian medi
obbying on behalf of Nord Stream II, a Russian-backed pipeline plan that would deliver more natural gas directly to Western and Central Europe via the Baltic Sea, bypassing Ukraine and Belarus. At the same time, Burt was helping to write a major Trump foreign policy address. That speech, among other things
iver. Russia's advance continued a century later, during the rule of Catherine the Great, who imagined her domains along the Black Sea constituted "Novorossiya," or "new Russia" -- a term revived by the pm-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Back then, the Russian court harbored dreams of collapsing the
3th century The "Rus" -- the people whose name got tacked on to Russia -- were originally Scandinavian traders and settlers who made their way from the Baltic Sea through the marshes and forests of Eastern Europe down toward the fertile riverlands of what's now Ukraine. Other Viking adventurers journeyed to C
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r lobbying on behalf of Nord Stream ||, a Russian-backed pipeline plan that would deliver more natural gas directly to Western and Central Europe via the Baltic Sea, bypassing Ukraine and Belarus. At the same time, Burt was helping to write a major Trump foreign policy address. That speech, among other things, ca
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019279 →isely is the main guarantor of the security of the Russian world.” In 2014, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin dredged up the tsarist-era term Novorossiya to de- scribe a large swath of southeastern Ukraine that he hinted might be annexed. Suddenly, the Novorossiya idea began appearing in Russian media,
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019282 →Entities connected to both Novorossiya and the Baltic Sea

Crimea
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Vladimir Putin
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Black Sea
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Adolf Hitler
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Barack Obama
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Eastern Europe
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Central Europe
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Prince Andrew
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European Parliament
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Bill Clinton
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Estonia
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United States
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Angela Merkel
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European Union
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Hillary Clinton
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Bashar al-Assad
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Armenia
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