In 1922 it was made part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union. The area, which has a majority ethnic Russian population today, is currently caught in a standoff ...

Ukraine did not even exist before the emergence of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian President ... Zorkin brought the Russian president a map, drawn in the 17th century in France ...

The article recalls that, in 1922, during the establishment of the USSR, which was co-founded by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a rather heated discussion among the Bolsheviks resulted ...