User:Dainomite/Geopolitical interests

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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).

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.

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

Blue Homeland

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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.

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

NATO member countries

Countries in the process of accession

Countries promised invitations

Membership is not the goal

Countries have not announced their membership intentions

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