Migration Dilemmas Haunt Post-Soviet Russia. As Russia enters the 21st century, it is confronting a set of migration issues that would have been unimaginable a decade ago.
Russians are grappling with the transition from a planned to a market economy, the liberalization of society, and their first decade of post-Soviet politics. Along with the upheaval in many other aspects of Russian life, these forces have fundamentally altered migration patterns. The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights. The State Hermitage Museum. The World Factbook. ShowIntroduction :: RUSSIA Panel - Collapsed Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities.
In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia.