South of the village of bilogorivka, luhansk region. News, analysis, discussion and investigative journalism documenting the ongoing conflict in ukraine. Politically, russia is the successor of the ulus of jochi (the golden horde), the western part of the mongolian empire From here we see the high centralization of power and despotism throughout the history of russia From a cultural point of view, russians are europeans Reply reply mascachopo • reply reply calixare • reply reply efficient.
Afaik russia never applied to join nato, putin always considered the us and nato hostile entities and he wouldn't want to contribute to such an organization Moreover, putin always considered certain countries (ukraine, estonia etc) as false countries that should be reabsorbed into russia, as they were during the ussr era. Russia is a pretty chill game if you take it slow, i've been playing them these days and just by changing things little by little and industrializing i've got the landowners to ~5% power share in 1890 without a revolution Russia is extremely strong, and muscovy is fairly strong until you form russia Which is group you take first depends a bit on playstyle (if you feed a couple of your vassals instead of coring the land, you could even open with an admin idea) Aristocratic or offensive for military (or both), admin and religious for admin.
