Sentence examples for Great Russia from inspiring English sources
proper noun
Name formerly applied to the territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of Muscovy and, later, Russia.
Once called, demeaningly, "Little Russia," as distinct from the "Great Russia" that grew outward from Moscow, Ukraine was and is a nation comparable to France in both area and population.
"We need a great Russia".
Limonov still dreams of a great Russia.
And, "You want great upheavals, we want a great Russia".
At the heart of the film is great Russia.
He has blanketed Russian cities with bland billboards ("Together toward a great Russia" is the tagline).
Already it had imitators: the Little Booker Prize, for non-fiction; the Anti-Booker Prize, funded by the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who now lives in disaffected exile in London; and the Solzhenitsyn Prize, supported by the great Russia-returned writer himself.
Yeltsin defied nationalist demands for the restoration of a greater Russia and made huge concessions to the other successor states, notably Ukraine, but got little credit for it.
A little over three hundred years ago, the debt-ridden grandson of Sir Robert Walpole, England's first Prime Minister, sold off to Catherine the Great of Russia the great art collection amassed by his grandfather.
"So great is Russia's economic and thus social catastrophe that we must now speak of another unprecedented development: the literal demodernization of a 20th-century country," writes Stephen F. Cohen, professor of Russian studies at New York University, in "Failed Crusade".
It should be said that under great pressure, Russia played this game well, allowing Saudi Arabia to stroke the ball around pointlessly in midfield and then pounce on the many mistakes made by the men in green.
