FOCUS: RUSSIA  Ob B a re n t s S ea NORWAY Russian border ... before 1721 around 1725 around 1795 present day de facto Russian military protectorates SWEDEN FINLAND territory ceded to Russia by Sweden in 1721 Helsinki Stockholm Tallinn ESTONIA Baltic Sea Riga St Petersburg (est. 1703) RUS S IA LATVIA Moscow LITHUANIA Kaliningrad Vilnius (RUS) Minsk BELARUS Warsaw Vi s t u la POLAND KAZAKSTAN Kiev SLOVAKIA territories appropriated between 1730 and 1795 HUNGARY SERBIA Pristina KOS. Skopje MAC. Volg UKRAINE Budapest Belgrade Eastern Ukraine MOLDOVA Chisinau Transnistria a per Dnie ROMANIA Ca s p i a n Sea Crimea Krim Bucharest Danube South Ossetia Abkhazia B l a c k S ea Sofia BULGARIA GEORGIA Tbilisi AZERBAIJAN ARMENIA Yerevan Ankara GREECE TURKEY Athens 28 SI TUATIO N R E P O RT 2018 | F I S 500 km