Khabarovsk: Russian city on the Chinese border!

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Khabarovsk is a Russian city that is just 30km away from the Chinese border. How did this border come to be? And what is it like for Russians living on so close to their much more populated neighbors?
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If we look for the easternmost point of China we would be brought here to Heilong province where the Amur river separates China from Russia creating the 6th longest border in the world.
Just passing over the Amur some 30 kilometers you will find the city of Khabarovsk.
the largest or second-largest city in Russias Far East with around 600’000 thousand residents.
The city is also located along the Trans-Siberian Railway; by which it is 8,523 kilometers away from Moscow. A distance that would take 5 and a half days to cover.
Closest foreign capital is Pyongyang in North Korea roughly 1300 km away. Tokyo isn't significantly further either, just 1430km away.
B eijing on the other hand is some 1700km.
As the city is so close to the Chinese border it has for a very long time been sitting on contested land. Experiencing significant tensions over centuries of complex territorial tensions.
So how did Russia acquire this far eastern territory? And do the people of Khabarovsk and other border regions need to worry about losing influence to China?
Prior to the 17th century, Russia and China were on opposite ends of Siberia, which was populated by independent nomads. So there wasn’t much contest but
By about 1640’s Russian settlers had traversed most of Siberia and founded settlements all the way up to the Amur River basin thereby becoming neighbours with the Chinese.
Border relations between the two countries had never been negotiated and the Manchu emperor did not like the fact that Russians had started to settle along the basin, which he deemed to be his territory.
This was the cause of intermittent fighting and long negotiations between the two empires.
It could take a year for a letter sent from the imperial palace in Peking to reach the tsar’s palace in St Petersburg, and when it did arrive, there were not always translators available to read it.
From 1652 to 1689, China's armies drove the Russian settlers out, and after 1689 peace was established through the treaty of Nerchinsk.
Which simply put was based on the fact that Russia at the time could not match Chinese dominance in the area and had to relinquish the territories north of the Amur river.
After the Treaty the area became an uncontested part of the Qing Empire for the next century and a half.
Modern historical maps of the Qing period published in China mark the site of future Khabarovsk as Bólì
This changed during The Second Opium War which started in 1856.

[@zainmudassir2964]

It's also the city where war crimes trials against Japanese in WW2 took place and details of Unit 731 were revealed.

[@GeoPerspective]

Wish I had included this

[@vika_festu]

And the last Manchurian emperor Pu Yi lived for 5 years after ww2.

[@SantomPh]

Given what they did to Chinese and other Asians in the war, whatever happened to them were not crimes.

[@azchhn]

@@SantomPh nowadays Americans like Japan so much, they even want them to have Kurill isles from which japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

[@lops_stylelops5974]

Wanna talk about Japanese war crimes?)

[@WChocoleta]

I was born and raised in China and still live here today. I am astonished to see how many Western geopolitical bloggers have asserted that China is eyeing on taking back some of the territories lost to Russia a century ago. Meanwhile, reclaiming these territories is a topic that practically NO ONE thinks or talks about here in China. It is never discussed by the state-owned media or the independent , private 'We-media'. No nationalist sentiment has been aroused on these territories, except the fact that we still mark the former Chinese names on our map alongside the translation of their current Russian names. That's it. China has had a convoluted relationship with Russia throughout the centuries, and we had a major negotiation with them in the late 1990s to settle all these territorial disputes. After that we have both moved along.

[@user-yo5ee5kx4y]

Because they are trying create schism between Russia & China, not even knowing that northern chinese territories have sparse population & better climate, so there is no strategic need for China to even occupy these territories.

[@josefkopacz1144]

Oh Yeah the Amir river clashes never happened.

[@evok427]

Russia have atom missile's like czar bomb and other .

[@yuliusjrt9917]

@@evok427 so does China lmao. And this recent invasion of Ukraine has also proved that Russia’s military cannot even beat the poorest country in Europe.

[@evok427]

@@yuliusjrt9917 in 1990 russia had 40000 atom missile's and now china have 400 atom missile's

[@aceace5641]

Pretty good job at the end. Every American I talk to on the subject is somehow convinced China wants to take over that land. Having lived in China's northeast and visited Vladivostok such an idea couldn't be farther from the truth. Actually, you would meet more Russians in Dongbei than you would meet Chinese in Russia's far east simply because of economics. The Chinese economy is doing much better and has more opportunities for both Russians and Chinese.

[@TheArklyte]

Percentage wise? And land is somehow only interesting if it has population to take and not resources? Охуительные истории. А тем временем я слышу от знакомых: "да не волнуйся, тут китайцев не более 10%" "да не волнуйся, тут китайцев не более 15%" "да не волнуйся, тут китайцев не более 20%" "да не волнуйся, тут китайцев не более 25%" "да не волнуйся, тут китайцев не более 30%" >мы сейчас тут "да не волнуйся, тут китайцев не более 35%"

[@Alejojojo6]

You forget a key issue here... Resources and Space... which Russia's far north has in abundance, exactly what China needs. By annexing that, It would have access to those huge amount of resources that the chinese population desperately needs.

[@user-wt3fq5xt4n]

@@TheArklyte Это где их "не более 30%"?. Вы может не воображаемых знакомых будете приводить, а статистику скинете?

[@user-wt3fq5xt4n]

@@TheArklyte Можете не волноваться, я уже сам проверил, если вы говорили о Хабаровском Крае то там, в 2010, было 0,3% китайцев. В Приморском Крае - 0,16% китайцев (в том же 2010). Где вы взяли 25%, я не знаю.

[@Player-re9mo]

Russia is a nuclear superpower. If China invades Russia a nuclear war will start and China has much more to lose in nuclear fallout than Russia. Moscow is very far from the Chinese border and Russian population is accumulated in Europe. If China bombs Russia hundreds of thousands will die. If Russia bombs China billions will die.

[@smartbirdNY]

The economy is much better on the Chinese side now, that's why the Chinese wouldn't want to stay in Russia.

[@gustavoritter7321]

But the Chinese state certainly want that land

[@hzhang1228]

@@gustavoritter7321 which one? the ROC probably wants it way more than PRC

[@grandemperorputin5992]

Yes but Russia’s economy is improving very quickly. These regions are now firmly Russian needless to say.

[@madaxgaming6405]

Russia Is absurdly big, it has borders whit countries you would not relate whit Russia in Your general idea of the world

[@danielbenner7583]

Both areas are experiencing population decline.

[@stevecheung4750]

When Russia first took control of Primorsky Krai in 1860 and subsequently developed the seaport of Vladivostok, back then it was not ice free year round. That was why Russia needed to develop another seaport at the tip of Manchuria, Port Arthur (Lushun) which was ice free year round. They even built a short cut of the Trans-Siberia Railroad thru Manchuria. But they lost the port to Japan as a result of the war in 1904.

[@elimlinrr6898]

Today Lushun is called Dalian, one of the few cities that has many Russian signboards.

[@sareg3477]

I did not expect to see in the recommendations a video about my city I like this video and subscribe

[@M0ggingGymrat]

Your Videos are educating and interesting, exquisite.

[@leroyavila3088]

Wow! I wouldn’t have known without this chanl , the beautiful areas in Russia !

[@ssw9310]

Admittedly nowadays there are not a lot of Chinese people in the city but I remember there were lots of them selling stuff in our markets approximately 10 years ago, my clothes were bought there every year throughout my childhood. And I cannot say this was a bad thing, those Chinese were learning Russian language, Russian life and so on and had Russian partners in markets, therefore, it was a sort of Russian-Chinese economic partnership

[@noorabdulle8603]

Americans are jealous of Russia but they should remember that Russia was never conquered. Long leave Russia ❤❤

[@daverobinson6110]

​@@noorabdulle8603everything you got you stole from the west, or it was given to you. One sixth of the landmass of the earth is still not enough. Alaska was a bargain, thanks.

[@TheBobVova]

@@daverobinson6110 West? Russia is West, genius.

[@Tischtennisplatte15]

Amazing video's

[@medicann_coping]

great channel

[@rangraj693]

Nice documentary. 👍👍👍👍

[@KhabarovskUser]

As a resident of Khabarovsk I like this video!

[@bachehazara5009]

The Russian Far east belongs to China. And in the near future, China will take it back. Love China 🇨🇳 from Afghanistan 🇦🇫

[@ahmedsaleh9509]

Cooool

[@caralhoguy]

@@ahmedsaleh9509 yes cool

[@LoLMasterManiac]

Give back the Chinese land!

[@cohonasking24]

@@LoLMasterManiac This is Russian land.

[@zizimai7568]

Very interested in China - Russian boarder cities. Hope i get to visit someday.

[@sk-sm9sh]

do it while you can because soon they won't be china-russia border anymore as they will be far behind china's borders

[@stefanthorpenberg887]

I was in Chabarovsk shortly in 1981. It was a quite peaceful place. People used to put together choirs who sang folksongs in the saturday nights in the streets.

[@lexxiii3]

Very interesting!

[@Fisser_Official]

I’m from Khabarovsk, also nice video!

[@jameswu8019]

You are really knowledgeable. good at history

[@Unraveled]

I want to edit maps like you do, they're amazing!

[@GeoPerspective]

My maps, just Geo Layers3! Your animations 👌 pure wodoo magic 😉!!

[@darylcheshire1618]

For many years Vladivostock was a closed city and tourists had to detrain at Kharbarovsk.

[@loksterization]

Khabarovsk looks like a beautiful and peaceful city!

[@seregawolf95]

And its very hot in summer)

[@ssw9310]

@@seregawolf95 and very cold at winter. I hate the weather there

[@axelaqvayli]

@@ssw9310 u live there?

[@user-wg6cr9fe3p]

@@axelaqvayli i was born there

[@axelaqvayli]

@@user-wg6cr9fe3p ah Nice ! But it is very freezing there !!

[@vermontnewyorker]

Thanks! I follow “Yeah Russia” too. So you could say Natasha sent me. 🇷🇺🇺🇸

[@mayakstudios7292]

Интересный факт: под Хабаровском было местр ссылки последнего императора Китая. Его домик собираются реконструировать

[@user-yx7gq4gs5t]

уже восстановили, на Заимке, где часовня за забором, пока закрыт для посетителей

[@mayakstudios7292]

@@user-yx7gq4gs5t а ок, давненько туда не ездил

[@user-fh4le1pn8o]

А ещё Ким Ир Сен родом из Князе Волконки.

[@mayakstudios7292]

@@user-fh4le1pn8o Ким Ир Сен родился в Корее под Пхеньяном. А его сын-преемник в Вятском

[@Drannn54]

@@mayakstudios7292 в нелегетимной Корее а не в Корее

[@sturejonsson]

I like this video😊👍

[@ghaurikhan1189]

think you very much

[@cidpusa700]

Amazing history

[@user-xe2eb1zj5i]

謝了。兄弟👍

[@russkiydurak]

I don’t want to seem like a bore, but this is the flag of the President of the Russian Federation as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and not the flag of the Russian Empire. But the rest of the video is interesting and informative!

[@dutchstijl]

Nice =D

[@GrigoryVetrov]

👍👍👍

[@MyEvalution]

I so surprise!❤️

[@stevecheung4750]

In the late 1990s, there was a Tumen River Area Project aiming to develop the area where China, Russia and North Korea converge. Even the UN showed interest. But the project is still in limbo.

[@denbigben6137]

Привет с Хабаровска. Ни чего не понял, но очень интересно.

[@Cramble64]

Хабаровск - лучший город!

[@yeshiyangzom8532]

Miaogai. The real name of Haba

[@GeoPerspective]

KINMEN ISLAND kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJrNlYSQd8iZeck

[@andriwahyudani1302]

I like your videos 😊 it's very good, had nice quality, even had subtitles! And informative. Sadly it's underrated :( I hope you get 1 million subs soon. Greetings from Indonesia 😃👋

[@GeoPerspective]

@@andriwahyudani1302 Yeah, KZbin is tough :D thank you for the kind comment

[@user-mb5tg3kz3d]

Юху, я живу в Хабаровске)

[@sdaiwepm]

Very interesting! I wonder - do any buildings or other structures in this region predate the Russian takeover in 1858?

[@erni2619]

I wonder as well!

[@weijiafang1298]

If I remember correctly there is Bohai/Balhae temples in the region.

[@user-fh4le1pn8o]

Nope. Bohai was a little fisherman village inhabited by amur's indigenous peoples. Mostly.

[@Julia1khabarovsk]

No, Chinese didn't ever lived here. They just took taxes from native people. And they(native people) lived in small villages, mostly fishing and hunting. There were no big building and structures etc. Actually there's ancient petroglyphs, it's the most interesting historical thing here.

[@johnanon372]

Manchu Emperor started taxing the natives before they even conquered inland China. When locals reported Russian invasion, the already Sinicized imperial court barely realized that the crown had suzerainty toward locals😂

[@canadianlivinginrussia3237]

Thank you for presenting this video. I am a Canadian and moved to Khabarovsk in May 2022. I started a KZbin channel which shows what life is like in Khabarovsk through the eyes of a Canadian. My channel is called, "Canadian Living in Russia". I have uploaded over 275 videos.

[@Oregon123]

My mom was born in Habarsk. My dad in Manchuria.

[@dazpatreg]

Do you have an Irish accent?

[@GeoPerspective]

partially

[@blackfield1885]

okay now over 200 likes

[@ragnar2540]

and they know it so Go Go 🔥

[@jeromelapig5946]

This side of the world must be vist! Its like some hidden gems hiding here in the far east of Russia.

[@StevenSPikip]

How can I get into Khabarovsk from Harbin? Need help here guys.

[@Oregon123]

Trans Siberian railroad.

[@davidcunningham2074]

interesting

[@dfamadorvlogs5622]

How did you know?

[@nehcooahnait7827]

1:30 yikes, what map is that? 🥶 why the map that looks like the territory of Ming had an emperor of Qing???

[@gregwilliams386]

Recently, a Chinese general stated that China wants Khabarovsk and Vladivostok back.

[@krakenxs]

No.

[@krakenxs]

bbc? 😁

[@kyunney4361]

@@krakenxs cnn 😂😂

[@hassanssewanyana9336]

CIA agents at work.

[@AlexanderTch]

What's his name? when he said that and where? We are ready to meet them

[@gmicg]

Amour in French means "Love", it is thus the river of love.

[@lrn_news9171]

You have awesome videos on Russia

[@manchu-qu9mw]

In border cities, it is good to see mixed interactions in trade and not be colored prejudice and suspicion. It is the politics that affects the livelihood of the citizens.

[@mauropereira187]

What about Blagoveshchensk? They are right next to the Chinese border

[@willkim4798]

An old Chinese town,Blagoveshchensk means" announce good news "in Russian.Both two cities across the river named "璦琿“（aihui),but Chinese side is newer built after russian drove out(actually massacre) the aborigines and renamed the city.

[@peterwiles1299]

I’ve visited twice, both in summer. Visit the war memorial.

[@user-jj2ct6rh6q]

他的名字叫做伯力

[@Cramble64]

?

[@Cramble64]

Это Хабаровск

[@cina-tech]

总有一天会割让给中国.

[@Teotihuacan22]

@@Cramble64 this is the old Chinese name of the city before your imperialist bullying tsar occupied it. Seeing what Putin has been doing, I think your country has never changed: still a vulgar bully.

[@BBQ639]

哈巴罗夫斯克

[@syedputra5955]

No point antagonising a nuclear power. China prefer lightly defended countries like tibet and soon, south east Asia.

[@zrikizrikic9126]

Serb made that Border fair. ..that Is why it stood so Long

[@yumallah]

True. Vladislavić-Raguzinski. There's a monument dedicated to him in the town of Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg.

[@Admiral_Jezza]

1:52 If anything, THIS is the first time an Asian power won a war against a European power, long before the Russo-Japanese war in 1905.

[@GeoPerspective]

If you don't count the Huns and the Mongols

[@thenoobprincev2529]

@@GeoPerspective and the ottomans, and the Caliphates, and the Sassanids, and the Parthians, and.... What are you two even talking about?

[@xz1891]

伯力

[@krakenxs]

Хабаровск

[@xz1891]

@@krakenxs 牦子偷的

[@WhyWouldRussiaHateJapan]

Хабаровск - Россия 🇷🇺 Харбин - Южная Корея 🇰🇷

[@mayakstudios7292]

Google translates "boli" as "Khabarovsk" anyway.

[@nnsnumbersandnotesunlimite7368]

As soon as China will realize that Taiwan is a bad and costly choice, it will have a closer look at Outer Manchuria.

[@user-kb2ww8mk8o]

Nice, as a Russian i always wanted to have East Turkestan, Mongolia and Inner Manchuria!

[@donaldhassell6430]

Miss these types of none political videos 😥

[@GeoPerspective]

So do I, but without a little agenda its hard generating views :/

[@alexla_grange8957]

It's China on the border of russian city

[@user-V448]

чё он там про мой город говорит , не пойму?

[@hasanpasha01]

он сказал, что Китай захватит ваш город и вышвырнет вас в ближайшие недели 😔

[@user-V448]

@@hasanpasha01 нет, китайцев тут очень мало, много Азербайджанцев, Узбеков, Армян им дают гражданство и хорошие выплаты

[@juanlugo7492]

Sounds weirdly familiar to US southern border

[@fuun17]

You need to hire a narrator with better accent.

[@quakeknight9680]

Do you Russians really pronounce "Khabarovsk" with silent "K" ?

[@sketchingdown9710]

No we don't. We say HAbarovsk but without K it would have sounded as [hæ] for english speakers. This applies to many words really

[@GeoPerspective]

I did a bad job with the pronouncing as usual

[@quakeknight9680]

@@sketchingdown9710 Nice, just like Harkov, instead of Kharkiv.

[@evilleader1991]

Kharbuz

[@michaelpeng9993]

5:59, this isn't really correct, the heilongjiang province's birth rate is one of the lowest in China, and it's heavily losing population due to people migrating to the south, they've lost like 8 million people in the last 10 years

[@SerwerW]

when polish city? ;p

[@p3yp649]

No one will want to live in cold , harsh climate & treated like a 2nd class citizens in foreign country . Better find economic opportunities in places where the people treats you decently with fairness and basic human rights.

[@azchhn]

is this some parallel dimension version of Los Angeles with cold climate you are talkin about?

[@AlexanderTch]

Russia has the best human rights in the world unlike yours country or China. Climate in Khabarovsk is musson, it's not cold at all. Your brain is heavily damaged by anti russian hollywood movies.

[@ihorperec4990]

Khabarovsk is actually a Chinese city. Must like Vladivostok (Haishenwai in Chinese).

[@mayakstudios7292]

Ждем вас в гости в РУССКОМ Хабаровске

[@ihorperec4990]

@@mayakstudios7292 Он ненадолго останется РОССИЙСКИМ. Китай отберёт его у рашки

[@user-kb2ww8mk8o]

@@ihorperec4990Never, Russia will expand in Inner Manchuria, Mongolia and east turkestan!

[@DavidNewmanDr]

A bit hard to follow because the narrator talks too fast, like reading out a script instead of a natural conversation.

[@andrewsaxon4314]

"kwing empire" 😂😂

[@GeoPerspective]

Yeah, I know … now

[@dpt6849]

Khabarovsk. Lesbian Natasha promoted her city very well.

[@champan250]

That's why China built/is building 4 high speed rail lines to the edge of Russian border in Manchuria but Moscow has no interests in connecting them to those "Outer Manchuria"/Russian Far East cities despite China offered to pay for it privately

[@gregwilliams386]

The map says Chinese Tartars.

[@funkervogt47]

5:58 - Chinese birthrates have fallen below replacement level.

[@mrfreddo461]

Looks like it will be future Chinese city

[@nehcooahnait7827]

“Heilongjiang” province

[@eagerdip8086]

❤❤🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

[@jackcat3745]

Russia did not took land from China. China was a part of Mongolia, and a part of Manchuria till 1911.

[@Oregon123]

Its Manchuria and my families got chased out of there by red china.

[@Da__goat]

I would say that in the 1960s, had the Chinese and Soviets gone to war, the Soviets would have just dropped nuclear bombs all over Manchuria. Yeah, the army might be 10 million strong, but its hard to be able to cross a river when chunks of flesh are falling from your bones due to radiation poisoning. It’s the same thing that Macarthur suggested that the US do in the Korean War. Everyone viewed nuclear weapons as a last resort due to how they were used at the end of WWII against Japan so the idea was unheard of in the west, but the Soviets wouldn’t care about frivolous things like opinions in the same decade when they tried putting nuclear missiles in Cuba.

[@duitk]

Yup and the US would have not intervened as long as they or their allies were not hit. No reason for NATO to die for other commies. The USSR would have spanked China, back in the day they were not like Russia is today.

[@Da__goat]

@@duitk exactly what I was thinking. 100% correct. Containment at the time would have been all for them tearing each other apart

[@maddogbasil]

I guess nowadays its pretty calm The only reason these 2 countries aren't tearing each other to piece Is probably due to their similar dislike of the americans I guess if america stops being a threat both sides will end up become insanely military Also just in case if a war was to happen in the long run I don't see the russian population in the far east surviving The demographics alone is insane The Russian side has around a couple million while the Chinese side has around 200 million in the manchurian area alone Im pretty shre the Chinese wouldn't even have to go to war The russian population alone would end up just disappearing in the next couple decades While the Chinese end up with a massive aging population that will definitely hit their economy hard

[@dabo5078]

The bomb for China was developed in 1967 and the tension only started to rise in the 70s.

[@vika_festu]

My grandfather was one of the Commanding officers during that conflict. Nuclear weapons was out of the question because a Russian city was too close to the border. The only country that actually dropped its nukes on civilians was the US. Cuba happened as an answer to Turkey.

[@viveksinghkaushalofficial2465]

sir, use correct map of India 🇮🇳.

[@evh1734]

No.

[@Dmitri_Donskoy]

India irrelevant

[@doma_fan0676]

Don't you mean the British Raj?

[@chikiboomboom665]

​@@Dmitri_Donskoy😂😅

[@francoking3641]

China has just released maps showing the Amur islands to be under their control. We wait a reaction from Moskva...

[@GeoPerspective]

Oooh 😯

[@TheBobVova]

Europe has just released maps showing Western Russia to be under their control.

[@nebojisatomic1681]

Crimea is also in Russia amigo. Be sure to put it on the map next time 👍🇷🇺❤

[@GeoPerspective]

Sure the map is out of date. Bring it up with ERSI they designed it :) I wish I did.

[@sirzavod6717]

As russian i can't agree with you.

[@Vasily_Perov]

@@sirzavod6717 As Russian, I'm very happy, that Crimea came back to Russia after Ukrainian occupation.

[@africanunited4168]

Crimea is for Ukraine, I hope the Ukraine president Zelynsky can take back their lost land like Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea, Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@Vasily_Perov]

@@africanunited4168 Wether Crimea is Ukraine, you have to ask people there, not Ukrainian or US president. It is called democracy.

[@bumblebeeeoptimus]

I'm eager to see how long this "alliance" between the two is going to last.

[@mountain_climbing]

As long as there is a Western bloc, the union will hold. For it is advantageous for China and Russia to interact with each other having such a political rival. But if the EU and the US disappear, then it will be interesting how long or in what form this cooperation will exist

[@duyanning]

when US disappears

[@azchhn]

probably until US stops electing delusional-war criminal presidents soooooooo... never

[@yumallah]

Forever.

[@Alexander-nl2xk]

As a Chinese, we will never forget that Russia is the country that invaded and occupied the most territory of our country, more than 1.3 million square kilometers, and also contributed to the independence of Outer Mongolia from China, I hope that any Chinese with a conscience will not forget this, now not standing with the West to sanction Russia, because at this moment the Americans are our main enemy, Hopefully China will recover the territory it lost to Russian aggression after defeating the US

[@bernhartschmieder9401]

I think that saying that the people from siberia are russians based only on their nationality (which is literally just a word on paper) is horrendously misleading. Just look at them.

[@user-vz2fj4wq7d]

There many many local peoples in the far east but there're ethnic russians as well. Even more so considering the govt want to relocate as many people to the eastern part of the country as possible

[@bernhartschmieder9401]

@@user-vz2fj4wq7d Yes exactly, it's a colony, just like Mexico for the spanish or north america for the british.

[@user-vz2fj4wq7d]

@@bernhartschmieder9401 In a sense it is but the same could be said about every multi national state. Believe it or not but peole of different nationalities can live side by side without one of them being perceived as a colonizer. They are more than equal.

[@bernhartschmieder9401]

@@user-vz2fj4wq7d Perhaps during the times of the austrian empire your words would have sound true (at least for the emperor and his agenda) but as of today i cant take what you said seriously, im sorry. China, mexico, the us, india, italy, spain, turkey are just some of the countries that come to mind in which people make more money depending on their skin color, eye shape or accent and i simply cant see how a country like russia can be any different. I will happily remain unconvinced.

[@user-vz2fj4wq7d]

@@bernhartschmieder9401 well you can't compare all those countries together. Cause US naturally pays less money to immigrants, Turkey's case in unique it has both migrant crisis and numerous problems with Armenians and Kurds. You probably don't know a bit about most of these countries how can you really claim anything at all, I don't get it. Neither do I get why you brought up Austria-Hungary, if anything its multiple nations weren't equal, not even one bit.

[@laurapuja7193]

Oroszország az egèsz világ legszebb ès egyben a legnagyobb, a legdicsősègesebb ország, amit valaha is lètezni van e a jelen tükrèben! Üdv.: Laura 🐦💌🌐🤲

[@schwarzerhaufen4430]

false map being used. if you had spent 1 min learning about Qing Dynasty, You would know how ridiculous the mistake you made is

[@Expertcouch.]

Великобритания до сих пор не убралась из Китая...Вы это не знаете? А с Россией Китай провел демаркацию границы. Все вопросы решены..Нет никаких претензий. А вот Франция или германия не умеют соблюдать договоренности. Про США или Великобританию и вовсе говорить смешно. The UK has not yet moved out of China...Don't you know that? And China has demarcated the border with Russia. All issues have been resolved..There are no complaints. But France or Germany do not know how to comply with agreements. It's ridiculous to talk about the USA or the UK at all.

[@user-qp2fs3kp9z]

Not a Word about iivryskaia oblast

[@TheBobVova]

It's another region.

[@user-uj5xy7sm6p]

Почему население без Крыма?

[@nebojisatomic1681]

Potomu shto oni fashisti i ne priznavajut shto Krim Rasijski.

[@damianczechowski5624]

Cause Crimea Is ucraine,no country recognisez russias Crazy claims

[@user-uj5xy7sm6p]

@@damianczechowski5624 нам все равно на вас)))

[@mad_scientist8673]

@@damianczechowski5624 it's not claims if it's already controlled by Russia

[@Manul4ik]

Потому что Крым по международному признанию, и по признанию РФ от 91 года это территория Украины, и вы должны были украинскую целостность защищать, но если вы этого не делаете, верните 3000 ядерных бомб.

[@jackcat3745]

China, tibet, Uyghur were ruled by Manchuria, a Mongolian tribe till 1911. The Great Wall is the traditional Chinese border.

[@kang7014]

Outer Manchuria

[@christopher9727]

John 3.16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

[@abramswee]

I think if China wants to take back its lost land from Russia, USA will not only won't interfere, but gives China its blessing too.

[@soutsienghai3370]

It is the homeland of qing emperor It is unfair to cut off to Russian

[@bachehazara5009]

China will take them very soon, 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇦🇫🇦🇫👏

[@alejandrosanchez6457]

You see in the future china will give Russia problem with that land

[@user-fh4le1pn8o]

Well, it was Manchurian not Han's territory. Eh, nominal territory in true. Because there is no manchurians officials here. So there is no basis to modern China for pretending it.

[@danyet2538]

@@bachehazara5009 i really wanna see them try

[@nighthawk2245]

@@bachehazara5009 No. More likely afghanistan will soon disappear from world's maps. It's not a legitimate state anyway.

[@karanmonza7534]

🎂🦀🦀🦀

[@vitaaaaas]

Живу в Хабаровске с рождения

[@cristinaraduly2081]

Wonderful country

[@ariguun9681]

Why content creators keep referring to Qing dynasty as Chinese? They were Manchus and spoke totally different language to the Chinese. It's like referring to to British empire as Indian because the empire's population consisted vastly from Indians.

[@chikamazri5817]

Answer me! What's the official language of Yuan and Qing dynasty? Can any black or an Asian people be US citizen aka American? I know some black people with French nationality. Answer me, are they French or not? There are 56 ethnic groups in China, and they are all Chinese! This type of comments will always make me laugh.

[@ouyangon5711]

清朝是一个朝代，但以皇帝为代表的统治阶级是满族，现在是中国五十六个民族之一，就像英国人不仅是英国人，还有苏格兰人和爱尔兰人一样，俄罗斯不仅是俄罗斯人，还有乌克兰人，哈萨克人，是多民族国家。

[@MasonGreenWeed]

Don't be stupid

[@surroundgatari]

@@chikamazri5817 "There are 56 ethnic groups in China, and they are all Chinese!" Those Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang province don't seem to think they're Chinese, yet here you say this... how lovely and imperialist of you! What of the Koreans by the NK border? They are Chinese according to you? Would you like the US to abolish the special first nation's rights of native Americans, following this logic? Add to all this the fact that most of China speaks mutually unintelligible languages that government bureaucrats have decided to label "Chinese" and that's a big Roman Empire style cultural bubble just waiting to pop... but laugh away as you please! 我爱中国!

[@surroundgatari]

@@chikamazri5817 to your first point... go to the Forbidden City right now my friend, as I have, and see with your own eyes the Manchu language writing inside the royal heavenly quarters of the Qing emperors themselves. Not linguistically related to any sino-tibetan language, it is a separate culture: one that conquered China for a few hundred years. Personally, I think this just a fascinating piece of history, and not really something to be ashamed of as some Chinese nationalists seem to do. But there is no point in lying when the proof is there in reality itself, truth is simple!

[@jackcat3745]

China was ruled by Manchuria till 1911. The traditional Chinese land is inside the Great Wall, if China owns the land was a part of Manchuria or Mongolia. Then fools should believe that, Canada, Australia are a part of India.

[@yeshiyangzom8532]

Canada, england have been occupied by Indian immigrants. They will be part of India in the future based on voting.