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 ...

"After Putin's talk, I found a Mongolian historic map," Tsakhia Elbegdorj ... a single state until the founding of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the early 20th century.

the eastern two-thirds of the battered and impoverished Ukraine became the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Except for a brief and terrible period of Nazi German occupation, the Soviet Union ...

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 ...