www.bbc.co.uk/russian/multimedia/2014/10/141010_saatchi_ukranian_art_exhibition_kan

Russians have complicated relationship with the border of their country. It flexible, in one historical period they it coming wider including more and more territory. In other time it goes in smaller, loosing territory. After that it's repead again. Some Russians geopolitics say, that their territory LIVE it breathes. Such an attitude towards the country is reflected in the mentality of Russians and  in their songs, such as

Wide is my Motherland,

Of her many forests, fields, and rivers!

I know of no other such country

Where a man can breathe so freely.