Northern Eurasia 2014: Donbass Rebellion
Successors of the Soviet Union
1816–1914 Late Tsarist Russia
1914–1918 Great War and the Revolution
1918–1921 Russian Civil War: The White Phase
1921–1927 Russian Civil War: The Green Phase
1927–1941 Soviet Union under Stalin
1941–1943 Great Patriotic War: Germany Invades
1943–1945 Great Patriotic War: Germany at Bay
1945–1991 Soviet Superpower
1991–pres Successors of the Soviet Union
Donbass Rebellion
6 Sep 1991 Baltic Indepedence
12 Dec 1991 Belavezha Accords
25 Dec 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union
4 Oct 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis
18 Jun 1995 First Chechen War
6 Feb 2000 Second Chechen War
13 Nov 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan
23 Mar 2005 Color Revolutions
7 Aug 2008 South Ossetia War
27 Feb 2014 Crimean Crisis
30 Jun 2014 Donbass Rebellion
30 Sep 2015 Syrian Civil War
9 Nov 2016 Russian Electoral Interventions
22 Mar 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
16 Jan 2023 Battle of Bakhmut
24 Jun 2023 Wagner Group rebellion
15 Jan 2024 Northern Eurasia Today
When Crimea acceded to the Russian Federation in March 2014, the US and its allies moved to support Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia. As the rift between Ukraine and Russia widened, pro-Russian unrest broke out across southern and eastern Ukraine. The movement was strongest in the southeastern Donbass region where separatist groups took power in Donetsk and Luhansk.
