Western countries inclined to take issue with this external empire-building, or with Russia's lamentable internal democracy and human rights deficit, have been told to save their breath.
The truth is that, although Thatcher was even more of a Cold War warrior than her partner Ronald Reagan, the unravelling of Moscow's external empire in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the internal empire that constituted the Soviet Union was brought about by none other than the Kremlin itself.
The external threat to the empire was no less ominous.
The expansionist khedive (Ottoman viceroy) Ismāʿīl Pasha of Egypt posed the first external threat to Yohannes' empire.
The bridegroom, 33, is the vice president for external relations at the Empire State Development Corporation, the state's economic development agency, in New York.
Waste Management, tops in U.S. trash-hauling, said it would replace Andersen with Ernst & Young as its external auditor; the garbage empire said its audit committee also decided that Ernst & Young should provide only auditing, not consulting services.
In the early years of colonial South Australia, the colonists saw themselves as part of the British Empire and external defence as an Imperial responsibility.
"In Portugal," says Francisco Pinto Balsemao, a former prime minister turned media magnate, "you always have to look for an external cause...the Moors, the empire, Spain, Africa, India, Brazil.
Roskomnadzor singled out a hyperlink to a different article, a 2008 interview with another Ukrainian nationalist, Dmitro Yarosh, who said the Georgian conflict showed that "our greatest external enemy is the Russian empire," and called for its "liquidation").So, what's wrong with a private media owner firing an editor accused of publishing offensive material?
In July, for instance, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared that "since the rule of Soviet empire, no other external power has dared to try to curb the sovereignty of Hungarians openly, choosing a legal form".
