Sentence examples for under Russian occupation from inspiring English sources

The region came under Russian occupation in the 19th century.

Western Ukrainians have long loathed Yanukovych, whom they see as an unambiguously pro-Russian figure, dragging Ukraine "back under Russian occupation".

"The government in Tbilisi has attempted to create an image of Russia as an enemy, banished Russian language from Georgian schools, removed World War II memorials and rewritten history with the goal of presenting Georgia as having been under Russian occupation for centuries," the statement said.

A platoon could be seen dug in about a mile off the road and 20 miles west of Gori, the city in central Georgia that had been under Russian occupation, and checkpoints remained on the highway, including one on either side of the city.

For more than a week, the villages on the roads running south from Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, some 20 miles to Gori, a central Georgian city now under Russian occupation, have been a corridor of grief, violence and crime.

Most Abkhazians will welcome the visit from the Russian president, says the BBC's Tom Esslemont in Tbilisi, but the Georgian government of Mikheil Saakashvili says the regions are under Russian occupation.

The Russian forces, posing as local self-defense militias, seized key buildings and transit points, putting the region under an unannounced Russian occupation.

Grove will recount living in Hungary under German and Russian occupation, and his eventual success in the United States.

Georgia and the rest of the international community refuse to observe or recognise the elections, on the grounds that Abkhazia is under de-facto Russian occupation and Georgian refugees are given no chance to vote.

Despite having spent the better part of the last few centuries under some form of Russian occupation, the Kazakhs are not what you'd call connoisseurs of fine spirits.

Thereafter, Trabzon remained under Turkish rule except for a brief Russian occupation (1916 18) during World War I. Modern Trabzon retains much of its medieval aspect.