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# The Russian Federation has officially declined to call itself the successor of the Russian Empire, so as not to pay the debts of its pre-revolutionary obligations
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- Published: 2026-01-31T16:53:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:09.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Observations, Society, Humour

The Russian Federation has officially declined to call itself the successor of the Russian Empire, so as not to pay the debts of its pre-revolutionary obligations. The USSR, for its part, had repudiated the foreign debt back in 1918.

You understand, talk of the great past is another matter entirely.