A Century of Russia’s Changing Borders

At the start of World War I, the borders of the Russian Empire extended west to the German and the Austro-Hungarian Empires and south to the Ottoman Empire as well as Persia. The Russian Empire at this time includes Finland, Poland, and Ukraine, giving it access to the Gulf of Bothnia, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.

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[abcMW]

It is also important to mention that Russia annexed more than half of the territory of the Principality of Moldavia (under the Ottoman rule), which it named Bessarabia after the annexation in 1812. Most of this territory is now called Republic of Moldova. Also, Romania did occupy Bessarabia as a result of the local authorities asking for help, due to lawlessness resulting from the withdrawal of the Bolsheviks.

[ronaldhereford]

VOA why don’t you cover the news on the United States Border

[rainydarkness]

Georgia also claimed independence from May 26 1918 to February 1921. You should fix this mistake and reupload the corrected video

[Hurrishane]

*Russia annexes Crimea

Bet they wished it all ended there, didn’t they

[rickyzhang]

It didn’t correctly label the current Ukraine map was split into two parts after WWI, where the eastern part is USSR and the western part is Poland.

[importantname]

Empires emporers and dictators. Everyone and every thing belongs to one family or person. Those who enjoy being owned love it.

[navegantejfg]

I’d like to know where our border with Mexico is because apparently there isn’t one right now.

[_FireHeart]

@VOA News, 0:37 and how about Ukraine?
Ukrainian republic (УНР) declared its independence on *January 22nd of 1918, * right after Finland
and many governments, including russia’s bolsheviks officially recognized it.

Please, remove this misleading video from YouTube, fix your mistake and reupload one with all the facts in place.

[ihlas]

Have you ever heard about occupation and war against Chechnya? If you did you would now from where it started back again in the “modern “ Russian history

[loumcast]

This is flawed! Not one mention of Crimea being part of Russia (not of Ukraine) since the late 1770's, longer than most states have been part of the USA! Crimea was illegally transferred to Ukraine in 1954 by the late Ukranian premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev without the consent of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic - today the Russian Federation. Crimea has a majority Russian ethnic population and since it was an autonomous republic under Ukraine's jurisdiction, it had the capacity to call for a referendum on its independence or return to the Russian Federation, in 2014 we all know what the people of Crimea chose, which was to return to Russia.

[luckyea]

I see mountains and valleys,
I see rivers and fields.
These are the Russian paintings,
This is my homeland.

I see Prague and Warsaw,
Budapest and Bucharest.
This is the Russian state,
So many beloved places!

I see pagodas in Sri Lanka,
And Korea, and China...
Wherever I ride in a tank,
Everywhere is my beloved land!

I see the Amazon River,
I see crocodiles...
This is the Russian side,
This is my homeland!

This is all my Russia, this is all my Earth
Who gives us so much strength?
It's my homeland! Our Russian land!
Wherever I ride in a tank, it's my homeland!

Not far away are the pyramids,
The Nile flows - rich in water,
Washing the Russian shore!
Russia, I am proud of you!

I see Washington in the valley,
I see Dallas and Texas.
How nice it is here in Russia
To drink delicious Russian kvass!

The sun rises over Sydney,
A platypus snores in the pond.
The speaker starts playing the anthem.
I enter the day with the Russian anthem!

Here, the Native Americans smoke a pipe
And extend it to me,
Everyone in the world loves Russians,
On my native land.

[OakInch]

So, you admit Crimea was Russian the whole time. LOL. And what exactly gave Ukraine the right to take Crimea with it? Soviet law, you say? The same Soviet law that gives Moscow control of all of Ukraine? Yes. let's be consistent. Lets use Soviet law to pretend Crimea is Ukrainian, despite it never in history being part of Ukraine. Then we can allow Moscow to just take all of Ukraine and end this nonsense. Your rules, not mine.

[in_tasin]

Russia gains too much and lost too much...

[valareamoon]

It's s not ur world .Mr pudin..it's my world

[pavloslav]

Finland and Poland in the Russian Empire were administrative units; Ukraine had no recognized borders in Russia, but was located much more Eastern than shown. I'm not sure how you're supposed to say that, but saying "Finland, Poland and Ukraine" and omitting Georgia, Estonia and many others looks somehow wrong.
"Russia invades Finland" - wrong. USSR invades Finland. Ukrainians were fighting and dying for the USSR in that war too, as well as other nations.
"The USSR helps to create a Warsaw pact" - what's wrong with you? The USSR didn't "helped" anyone, it forced occupied nations to sign the pact.

[enggrow]

Good to see that the Empire of evil is crumbling slowly. I wish it happened faster though.