Oleksandr Polianichev
Oleksandr Polianichev is a historian of colonialism and the Russian Empire at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Sodertorn University, Stockholm. He is currently working on a project that traces the global history of exotic plant transfers and Russian colonial imaginaries in the South Caucasus, funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
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The History of Aggression in Asia That Moscow Wants to Erase
Today, Tehran, Pyongyang and Beijing are providing critical support for the Kremlin’s latest war of expansion, while Russia claims its foreign policy rests on a history of opposition to imperialism — but under the tsars, Iran, China and Korea themselves fell prey to its ambitions.