Empire, the Russian Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. What the Greek case reminds us about is that the story of the disintegration of the empires, this is not an event. This is a process. And unfortunately, this is a process that can take not just decades, but even centuries. And that's, again, a useful case, but also an important perspective to have. In terms of the vision of the one big Russian nation and ideas of Eurasianism, Eurasianism, it's a bigger umbrella that is used by many Russian thinkers to a degree by Putin as well to extend the imperial tent, Russian imperial tent. Because what's the concept of the three-part type Russian nation doesn't allow for, it doesn't allow to provide justification for keeping under the Russian control Chechens, for example, right? Or to keeping under the Russian control Buryats, Tatars, and so on and so forth. So this is another step of the imperial project. It's not just you form a big imperial nation out of a number of nations, but also (23/40)
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