Russia / Europe
As the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine escalates, and Russia begins to resemble a monarchy run by Ivan the Terrible which allows Simeons Bekbulatoviches to occasionally jump in the driver’s seat, the word is spreading among those who are not indifferent to this country that Russia is not Europe but some kind of Asia, or Tartary, or the Horde, etc. For obvious reasons, these epithets can most frequently be heard in the Baltic States, Ukraine and the former …read more
Source: Intersection
