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They said that for two decades the Russian leader had been "seeking to recreate the Russian empire and suffocate the countries around its borders".

However, Lammy and his defence colleague John Healey said that Putin had for two decades sought "to recreate the Russian empire and suffocate the countries around its borders".

"I am out in the street together with my whole family trying somehow to tear out this small country out of the claws of the Russian empire," one protester told the Associated Press.

It’s unclear how much this weighs against his dream of restoring the old Russian empire, the first step of which is to regain control of all of Ukraine.

Koryoins are descendants of ethnic Koreans who migrated to the far east of the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries - before many were forcibly transferred to Central Asia in the 1930s as part of Stalin’s “frontier-cleansing” policy.