Russia's far east has always been the most strategically vulnerable part of Moscow's fissiparous imperium, in what is the world's biggest country.

在莫斯科对于这个世界上最大国家千疮百孔的统治权当中，俄罗斯的远东地区历来都是战略上最脆弱的一部分。

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To ex-subjects of the Soviet imperium, talk of officially encouraged admiration for “fraternal” nations, laced with displays of embroidery, cuisine and folk-dancing, sounds cloying.

对于前苏联国民来说，对于兄弟国家间兄弟情谊的官方赞赏言论，并加以粉饰加工，还有民间舞蹈相映衬，听起来真是倒人胃口。

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Not much happens: this is no pacey page-turner in the style of Robert Harris's gripping "Imperium".

没有太多的迭宕起伏：这不是那种象罗伯特·哈里斯引人入胜的《帝权》那样，让你爱不释手地一页不停翻下去的书。

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He expanded the Democratic imperium to include Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada.

ECONOMIST: The presidency

The bureaucratic screw-ups of the late Blair imperium, mostly in the Home Office, had threatened to revive an old caricature of Labour incompetence.

ECONOMIST: It might win Gordon Brown an election. But then what?

All of the historians involved in the debate over decline agree that the age of American Imperium cannot go on forever.

BBC: Is the United States an empire in decline?