The Russian empire, the state of Muscovy had already expanded greatly, but it's really Peter the great, it's the big guy who expanded Russia, its territorial size enormously.

沙俄帝国在此之前已有大幅扩张，但是，是彼得大帝，是这个大家伙扩张了俄国领土，他统治下的沙俄幅员辽阔。

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Mr Basescu backed the issuing of Romanian passports to Moldovans (just the sort of thing Russia does in its former empire).

伯塞斯库支持发给摩尔多瓦人罗马尼亚的护照(就像俄罗斯曾对帝国其他国家做过的那样)。

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By the end of 2010 Russia will be able to close down the ill-named Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, built to carry Soviet oil to the western half of the Kremlin’s empire.

到2010年底，俄罗斯将产闭名声不好的德鲁赫巴（Druzhba，“友谊”），一条输往前苏联西部地区的石油管道。

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Suny explains that during the First World War, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and was thus at war with Russia and most of Europe.

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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the fascist Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), frequently endorses the restoration of the historical Russia within the boundaries of the Russian empire.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

He could even lend a modest air of respectability to the dying days of his presidency by starting to mould a new policy towards the whole of Russia's former empire.

ECONOMIST: Russia��s Chechen folly

He goes on to argue, in a sweep that extends to Russia's privatisation programmes and left-over Russian communities in every last corner of the ex-Soviet empire, that the failure in Chechnya was symptomatic of a wider decline in Russia.

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