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Published book 'When I'm Hungry for Life, I Read Culture' Purchase link: https://bit.ly/3tnybpW Last February, Putin invaded Ukraine. The Western world immediately saw Russia's expansionism as the beginning again and went into a state of alert. This is because Russia has a history of expanding its territory in all directions whenever it has the chance for over 1,200 years. Russia's territory is a whopping 17.13 million㎢, making it the largest on Earth. It is 11.4% of the Earth's land area, 78 times larger than the Korean Peninsula, and a whopping 170 times larger than South Korea. How did Russia become a country with such a huge territory? There are three reasons for this, and the most powerful of them is Russia's fateful geopolitics. #WhyRussiaIsBig #WhyRussiaIsLarge #SizeofRussia