Russia and Ukraine both used to be part of the Soviet Union before its dissolution. They are the two largest countries in Europe, sharing a mutual land border ... but not all countries have ...

its westernmost region that is detached from mainland Russia. It also shares a maritime border with Japan, the subject of a decades-long feud involving a string of disputed islands called the ...

But in Russia, Google Maps now shows the ... platform in different countries," John Gravois of Pacific Standard magazine tells NPR guest host Tess Vigeland on All Things Considered.

These are Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, three countries stacked on top one of another to the south of Finland along the Baltic Sea and along Russia's northwestern border. They were all former ...

You would be forgiven for believing the Russia and Norway do not share a border, or that travel between the two countries would have to come via Sweden or Finland from a cursory glance at a map.

Russia's ongoing, unprovoked war in Ukraine prompted the nations to change their position. Finland's presence in the alliance more than doubles the border between NATO countries and Russia.