Countries across Russia’s former empire are reclaiming place names to assert identity
Ukraine's campaign to strip Soviet and Russian imperial place names from the country’s towns and cities is not a reaction to the current war so much as the leading edge of a region-wide rejection of Moscow's cartography, writes Joseph Epstein. The post Countries across Russia’s former empire are reclaiming place names to assert identity appeared first on Atlantic Council.
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