The Japanese government perceived a Russian threat to its plans for expansion into Asia and chose to go to war. |
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Owing to the Russian army's scorched earth tactics, the French found it increasingly difficult to forage food for themselves and their horses. |
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The Russian Empire stretched from Poland in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east. |
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In 1897, Russia occupied the Liaodong Peninsula, built the Port Arthur fortress, and based the Russian Pacific Fleet in the port. |
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After the Boxer Rebellion, 100,000 Russian soldiers were stationed in Manchuria. |
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Although the French had won, the Russian army had accepted, and withstood, the major battle Napoleon had hoped would be decisive. |
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The French suffered in the course of a ruinous retreat, including from the harshness of the Russian Winter. |
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Some scholars have suggested that Tsar Nicholas II dragged Japan into war intentionally, in hopes of reviving Russian nationalism. |
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Evidence of Russia's false sense of security and superiority to Japan is seen by Russian reference to Japan choosing war as a big mistake. |
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Metternich's motivation was to maintain France as a balance against Russian threats, while ending the highly destabilizing series of wars. |
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Port Arthur, on the Liaodong Peninsula in the south of Manchuria, had been fortified into a major naval base by the Russian Imperial Army. |
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Parker himself would wait in the Kattegat, covering Nelson's fleet in case of the arrival of the Swedish or Russian fleets. |
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During the first five years of Soviet power, the Bolsheviks executed 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,200 Russian Orthodox priests. |
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Admiral Makarov, the single most effective Russian naval strategist of the war, perished on the battleship Petropavlovsk. |
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The Karaim are being rapidly assimilated, ethnically and especially linguistically, to the surrounding Russian population. |
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On 23 June 1904, a breakout attempt by the Russian squadron, now under the command of Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft, failed. |
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Four Russian battleships and two cruisers were sunk in succession, with the fifth and last battleship being forced to scuttle a few weeks later. |
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Among the 'soldiers of fortune' was the ancestor to famous Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov, called George Learmonth. |
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In general, the Russian defenders were suffering disproportionate casualties each time the Japanese attacked. |
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Several doctors to the Russian court were from Scotland, the best known being James Wylie. |
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The Russian Katyusha is a multiple rocket thrower of which nothing is known except what can be seen on released photographs. |
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All this formed the climate for the Russian Revolution of 1917, carried out in two major acts. |
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The members of the original Triple Entente of 1907 were the French Republic, the British Empire and the Russian Empire. |
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A major preoccupation of his tenure in the War Office was the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. |
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During October 1944, he and Eden were in Moscow to meet with the Russian leadership. |
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At this point, Russian forces were beginning to advance into various eastern European countries. |
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After days of harsh fighting, added pressure from the flanks forced both ends of the Russian defensive line to curve backwards. |
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The retreating Russian Manchurian Army formations disbanded as fighting units, but the Japanese failed to destroy them completely. |
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Battle plans were laid down and ships were repaired and refitted to intercept the Russian fleet. |
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The Soviet Union succeeded the Russian empire in the remainder if its former territory, and Germany, Austria, and Hungary were reduced in size. |
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Of the nations that comprised former Russian Empire, only Finland would remain independent throughout the Cold War. |
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Estimates of Russian Army dead range from around 40,000 to around 70,000 men. |
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Ignoring the oceans, Russia built its Russian Empire through conquest by land in Eastern Europe, and Asia. |
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Wolff radioed Dressler that the Russian had been driven from the first kill zone and was close to being driven from the second kill zone. |
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Around 300 were made before their creation was banned by the Russian government. |
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War artists were to be found on the Russian side and even figured among the casualties. |
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Returning from Hong Kong, Cameron visited the then Soviet Union, where he was approached by two Russian men speaking fluent English. |
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This follows the voyage of the Russian Imperial Navy flagship Kniaz to its sinking at the battle of Tsushima. |
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The Russian capital itself, Moscow, also had a number of Dutch immigrants, mostly working as craftsmen. |
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By the end of the 19th century the Russian Empire, particularly the Branobel company in Azerbaijan, had taken the lead in production. |
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Under the agreement, the Russian agency manufactures Soyuz rocket parts for ESA, which are then shipped to French Guiana for assembly. |
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Numerous battles between the fleets were fought in the initial years, and Goeben and Russian units were damaged on several occasions. |
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The Russian Black Sea fleet was mainly used to support General Nikolaevich Yudenich in his Caucasus Campaign. |
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The Russian Karelians, living in the Republic of Karelia, are nowadays rapidly being absorbed into the Russian population. |
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German and Turkish light forces would however continue to raid and harass Russian shipping until the end of the war in the east. |
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After Admiral Kolchak took command in August 1916, he planned to invigorate the Russian Black Seas Fleet with a series of aggressive actions. |
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The Russian fleet mined the exit from the Bosporus, preventing nearly all Ottoman ships from entering the Black Sea. |
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The other German ships tried to refloat her, but decided to scuttle her instead when they became aware of an approaching Russian intercept force. |
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This second operation culminated in the one major Baltic action, the battle of Moon Sound at which the Russian battleship Slava was sunk. |
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Finland, Azerbaijan, and Lithuania joined them in 1918 before the war ended and after the Russian Empire collapsed. |
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Only recently has the modern Russian Navy begun building new classes of military hovercraft. |
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By later 14th century Russian Karelians established control over White Karelia and come in conflict with Norwegians of Kola. |
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One hundred employees manufactured projectors and film cameras, particularly for the ORTF and Russian television. |
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Relations with the Russian Federation have focused on trade, nuclear energy and defense supplies. |
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Reasons include the continued growth of Russian science worldwide, and cultural, economical and political reasons. |
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The Russian calendar was eleven days behind the Swedish during the 18th century, so Russian dates are eleven days earlier. |
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There has been a limited amount of orbital space tourism, with only the Russian Space Agency providing transport to date. |
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The Battle of the Masurian Lakes ended on 15 September and Czernowitz in Bukovina was taken by the Russian army. |
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In 1812 Russian engineer Pavel Shilling exploded an underwater mine using an electrical circuit. |
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In the summer of 1853, the production of the mine was approved by the Committee for Mines of the Ministry of War of the Russian Empire. |
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Migrant languages like Turkish, Russian and Spanish are widespread, but are not recognised official languages. |
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Hitler's main interest was the question of countering potential Russian intervention. |
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In 2012 there was initiative to hold a referendum on constitutional amendments, elevating Russian as a state language. |
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The ICRC worked with the Russian Red Cross society and later the society of the Soviet Union, constantly emphasizing the ICRC's neutrality. |
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Eastern Russian forests hold arguably the largest number of brown bears in the world outside of possibly Alaska and northwestern Canada. |
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Eventually, the Commonwealth was partitioned in 1772, 1792, and 1795 by the Russian Empire, Prussia, and Habsburg Austria. |
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The largest area of Lithuanian territory became part of the Russian Empire. |
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They were later joined by the Russian emigrant Naum Gabo, and other artists. |
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The last Russian troops left Lithuania on 31 August 1993, even earlier than they departed from East Germany. |
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Schools where Russian or Polish are the primary languages of education exist in the areas populated by these minorities. |
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Since 1937, Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations have extensively monitored the Arctic Ocean. |
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The Russian continental shelf consists of three separate, smaller shelves, the Barents Shelf, Chukchi Sea Shelf and Siberian Shelf. |
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In the Eurasian theater, the European Union and Russian Federation were two forces recently developed. |
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Russia reached the Pacific coast in 1647 and consolidated its control over the Russian Far East in the 19th century. |
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In the 1990s, two icons by the Russian icon painter Sergei Fyodorov were hung in the abbey. |
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The Manchurian Campaign of the Russian Empire was fought against the Japanese over Manchuria and Korea. |
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The embarrassing string of defeats increased Russian popular dissatisfaction with the inefficient and corrupt Tsarist government. |
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The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire. |
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Eastern Orthodox iconography also permits Saint George to ride a black horse, as in a Russian icon in the British museum collection. |
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Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. |
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The Bolsheviks made peace with the German Empire and the Central Powers, as they had promised the Russian people prior to the Revolution. |
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While these customs were unique to Russian culture, they were not exclusive to this region. |
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Seabed mapping was completed in 1933 with the first full map produced by Russian marine geologist Maria Klenova. |
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Nuclear contamination from dumped Russian naval reactors is an environmental concern in the Barents Sea. |
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The Chinese concept of chi, a form of energy that often manipulated in witchcraft, is known as bioplasma in Russian practices. |
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The descent took place in two MIR submersibles and was led by Soviet and Russian polar explorer Artur Chilingarov. |
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In a symbolic act of visitation, the Russian flag was placed on the ocean floor exactly at the Pole. |
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The Russian Book of Records recognized it as the first successful vehicle trip to the Geographical North Pole. |
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A member of the Russian team that descended to the North Pole seabed in August 2007 reported seeing no sea creatures living there. |
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Budyko published his work in a Russian journal and during the cold war in 1967, most North American scholars ignored Budyko's paper. |
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By the 1860s, the Russian government was considering ridding itself of its Russian America colony. |
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Pavlova, named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, is still just about the most popular party dessert in Australia. |
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Peasants in Russian and Ukrainian societies often shunned witchcraft, unless they needed help against supernatural forces. |
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After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 the Russian princes started to see themselves as the heirs of the Byzantine Empire. |
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The modern usage of the name was recorded in the Russian language after the Empire's conquest of the Siberian Khanate. |
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The Russian Army was directed to establish forts farther and farther east to protect new settlers from European Russia. |
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From 1859 to 1917, more than half a million people migrated to the Russian Far East. |
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Nevertheless, as far as Imperial Russian plans of settlement were concerned, cold was never viewed as an impediment. |
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Historically, Siberia was defined as the whole part of Russia to the east of Ural Mountains, including the Russian Far East. |
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Nicolas Florine, a Russian engineer, built the first twin tandem rotor machine to perform a free flight. |
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The Billiard Room holds a massive porcelain vase that was a gift of the Russian Tsar. |
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Neither the Russian Empire, nor the Soviet Union ever had an organised force that could be equated to a militia. |
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The movement of Russian Constructivist architecture was launched in 1921 by a group of artists led by Aleksandr Rodchenko. |
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Similar remains, of those that reached the European Russian Arctic 40,000 years ago, have also been found. |
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The numbers of Russian herders have been drastically reduced since the fall of the Soviet Union. |
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Among Russian travelers not so burdened by classical toponymy, Balkan was the preferred term. |
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The 1917 October Revolution led the Russian Empire to become the world's first communist state, the Soviet Union. |
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In 1552, Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible conquered two major Tatar khanates, the Khanate of Kazan and the Astrakhan Khanate. |
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After the measured victories at Smolensk and Borodino Napoleon occupied Moscow, only to find it burned by the retreating Russian army. |
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Khmelnytsky, deserted by his Tatar allies, suffered a crushing defeat at Berestechko in 1651, and turned to the Russian tsar for help. |
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Her father did not return from the Russian Revolution and her mother was evacuated to Paris where she married a British army officer. |
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From 1737 to 1834, expansion into the northern Black Sea littoral and the eastern Danube valley was a cornerstone of Russian foreign policy. |
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At the same time Karelians on the Novgorodian and later Russian side of the border continued to settle northward towards the White Sea. |
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Confessional tensions also reflected opposing Polish and Russian political allegiances. |
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After the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire in 1783, New Russia was settled by Ukrainians and Russians. |
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However, within the Empire, Ukrainians rose to the highest Russian state and church offices. |
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Beginning in the 19th century, there was migration from Ukraine to distant areas of the Russian Empire. |
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 led to the founding of the Soviet Union under the Bolsheviks, and subsequent civil war in Russia. |
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The Russian Civil War devastated the whole Russian Empire including Ukraine. |
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In 1878, as a result of the Treaty of Berlin, Romania was forced to cede the three counties back to the Russian Empire. |
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Even in the Russian era, each person had to officially belong to a religious denomination. |
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Many of the younger Russian poets and writers such as Konstantin Simonov were influenced by Kipling. |
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The insurgency was led by Russian emissaries Igor Girkin and Alexander Borodai as well as militants from Russia, such as Arseny Pavlov. |
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Since 1 January 2010 it has been permissible to hold court proceedings in Russian by mutual consent of the parties. |
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Citizens unable to speak Ukrainian or Russian may use their native language or the services of a translator. |
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A major influence on Woolf from 1912 onward was Russian literature as Woolf adopted the aesthetic conventions of Russian literature. |
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In eastern and southern Ukraine, Russian is primarily used in cities, and Ukrainian is used in rural areas. |
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Today, most foreign films and TV programs, including Russian ones, are subtitled or dubbed in Ukrainian. |
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The Karelians remained under Russian and then Soviet rule, and their absolute and relative numbers dwindled. |
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Then, in 1863, use of the Ukrainian language in print was effectively prohibited by the Russian Empire. |
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An equally notable contribution of Rasetrelli was the Mariyinsky Palace, which was built to be a summer residence to Russian Empress Elizabeth. |
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In the far east of the Sami area, the Russian monk Trifon converted the Sami in the 16th century. |
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In 1911 Russian pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff performed as a part of the London Ballad Concert. |
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The new Russian province was called Oblast of Moldavia and Bessarabia, and initially enjoyed a large degree of autonomy. |
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In the 19th century a community known as the Kola Norwegians settled in the environs of the Russian city of Murmansk. |
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He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution. |
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Communists and others rallied in Moscow to protest the Russian government's economic plans. |
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For the scenes of the fictional Russian location of Severnaya, and other effects, Derek Meddings built a number of miniature sets at Leavesden. |
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He had significant business interests in Russia, and spoke Russian fluently. |
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Roberts came to own Saltaire, but chose to invest his money heavily in Russia, losing some of his fortune in the Russian Revolution. |
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In Russian pyramid there are sixteen balls, as in pool, but fifteen are white and numbered, and the cue ball is usually red. |
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The first F1 Russian Grand Prix was held in 2014 at the new Sochi circuit, that runs around a venue used for the 2014 Winter Olympics. |
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Since 2003, Chelsea have been owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. |
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In many languages, Caesar became the word for Emperor, as in the German Kaiser and in the Bulgarian and subsequently Russian Tsar. |
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Simultaneously with the success of the Russian attack, Romania broke the military alliance with the Axis and changed sides. |
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After the 1905 Russian Revolution, a Romanian nationalist movement started to develop in Bessarabia. |
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In the fourth race of the season, the Russian Grand Prix, Hamilton did not set a time in the third part of qualifying so he started in tenth. |
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The new Irish Republic was recognised internationally only by the Russian Soviet Republic. |
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Between 1711 and 1812, the Russian Empire occupied the region five times during its wars against Ottoman and Austrian Empires. |
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The Russian male name Anatoly and the French Anatole share the same linguistic origin. |
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After its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet weapons entered officially into the possession of the Russian Federation. |
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Following 1994's G7 summit in Naples, Russian officials held separate meetings with leaders of the G7 after the group's summits. |
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However Russia was ejected from the group in 2014 following the Russian annexation of Crimea. |
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Historically Russian was taught in schools as the first foreign language, because of the relationship with the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. |
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However, the concept of absolutism was so ingrained in Russia that the Russian Constitution of 1906 still described the Tsar as an autocrat. |
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In the event of another rebellion in India, or of a Russian invasion, the time saved at Suez might be crucial. |
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The war divided the British, but the Russian success caused some to forget the atrocities and call for intervention on the Turkish side. |
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By one account, when met with Russian intransigence, Disraeli told his secretary to order a special train to return them home to begin the war. |
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In March 1917, the Tsar was ousted from the Russian throne, and in November a Bolshevik government came to power under the leadership of Lenin. |
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Meanwhile, soldiers had become radicalised by the Russian Revolution and were less willing to continue fighting. |
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This was seen as a method of countering Russian influence in the Balkans as the Ottoman Empire continued to weaken. |
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On 1 August, after the Russian response, Germany mobilized and declared war on Russia. |
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The newly communist Russia did not recognize Romanian rule over Bessarabia, considering it an occupation of Russian territory. |
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Persia, ostensibly neutral, had long been under the spheres of British and Russian influence. |
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General Yudenich, the Russian commander from 1915 to 1916, drove the Turks out of most of the southern Caucasus with a string of victories. |
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In 1917, Russian Grand Duke Nicholas assumed command of the Caucasus front. |
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In January 1918, Romanian forces established control over Bessarabia as the Russian Army abandoned the province. |
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Initial Russian plans called for simultaneous invasions of Austrian Galicia and East Prussia. |
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The oldest and largest Russian universities are Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University. |
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Allied and Russian forces were revived only temporarily by Romania's entry into the war on 27 August. |
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Many pogroms accompanied the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War. |
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In his frigid antihumanism, Sorokin parts company with Russian satirists like Gogol, Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha and, more recently, Viktor Pelevin. |
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The Central Asian Revolt started in the summer of 1916, when the Russian Empire government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service. |
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In September 1917, Russian soldiers in France began questioning why they were fighting for the French at all and mutinied. |
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The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum. |
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During this period Russian warm seas expansion presented a large and growing threat. |
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The eastern part was ruled by the Russian tsar as Congress Poland, which had a very liberal constitution. |
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However, over time the Russian monarch reduced Polish freedoms, and Russia annexed the country in virtually all but name. |
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They were joined by large segments of Polish society, and together forced Warsaw's Russian garrison to withdraw north of the city. |
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The January Uprising started out as a spontaneous protest by young Poles against conscription into the Imperial Russian Army. |
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The Russian Constitution guarantees free, universal health care for all its citizens. |
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The young Socialists had glorified Vera Sassoulitsch, the Russian would-be assassinatrix. |
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During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off. |
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Now, that success seems threatened by Russian treachery and brute force, and Hungary has appealed to the West. |
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There are several ranks of councillors and they have existed since the Russian Regime. |
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The Russian Federation retained bicameralism after the dissolution of the USSR and the transition from existing socialism to capitalism. |
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The six official languages of the OSCE are English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. |
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In cultural and social affairs Vladimir Putin has collaborated closely with the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy, it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson. |
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The OSCE team did not radio in or record the Russian mortar team firing on Ukrainian positions. |
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On 6 April 2016 photos of OSCE monitors attending the wedding of a Russian separatist were found. |
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Britain feared that Russian expansionism in the region would eventually threaten the Empire in India. |
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The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years. |
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However, after five days of artillery bombardment the Russian army was able to storm it. |
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The Russian quartermasters department had not improved, so the same problems reoccurred in Prussia. |
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Did they chack Kostner's skate because of the fluff piece on the Russian pairs or not? I kind of like her and wanted to see her. |
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By this point Frederick was increasingly concerned by the Russian advance from the east and marched to counter it. |
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However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner. |
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Meanwhile, after the battle of Kunersdorf, the Russian army was mostly inactive due mostly to their tenuous supply lines. |
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However, the Austrian and Russian forces were also heavily depleted and could not launch a major offensive. |
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The Russian army was heavily dependent upon its main magazines in Poland, and the Prussian army launched several successful raids against them. |
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The Russian Orthodox Church was the country's state religion prior to the Revolution and remains the largest religious body in the country. |
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They were the organizers of the first Russian demoparty, Enlight '96 in St. Petersburg, but unfortunately there weren't any quality releases. |
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Unlike the Russian desman, the Pyrenean species lives along fast-flowing mountain streams. |
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A Russian army of 10,000 landed on the Bosphorus shores in 1833 and helped to prevent the capture of Constantinople. |
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As the result of that Russian military operation, the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi was signed. |
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Britain could not tolerate Russian dominance of Ottoman affairs, as that would challenge its domination of the eastern Mediterranean. |
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Britain's immediate fear was Russian expansion at the expense of the Ottoman Empire, which the UK desired to preserve. |
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The Royal Navy also wanted to forestall the threat of a powerful Russian navy. |
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By the war's end, everyone realised the profound weaknesses of the Russian armed forces, and the Russian leadership was determined to reform it. |
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There he convinced the Sultan to reject the Russian treaty proposal, as compromising the independence of the Turks. |
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Fewer than half of the 80,000 Russian soldiers who crossed the Pruth in 1853 survived. |
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The soviet government facilitated the return to loyalty by departing temporarily from Marxist doctrinalism and appealing to Russian patriotism. |
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One sailor and a priest aboard a Russian cruiser caught in the crossfire were also killed. |
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Sultan Abdulmecid I declared war on Russia and proceeded to the attack, his armies moving on the Russian Army near the Danube later that month. |
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Hence the popular belief that elderdom was most of all at home on Russian soil. |
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At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the Russian Orthodox Church was deeply integrated into the autocratic state, enjoying official status. |
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In Russian military hospitals the subordinate duty is performed by a body of men who are designated feldschers. |
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The manat, consisting of 100 gopik, was introduced in 1992 and remains tied to the Russian ruble with widely fluctuating exchange rates. |
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Accordingly, the Austrians resisted Russian diplomatic attempts to join the war on the Russian side. |
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Despite the setback at Chetatea, on 28 January 1854, Russian forces laid siege to Calafat. |
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While in Bonn, at the time of Gorbymania, I fell in with part of the Russian entourage. |
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With the Russian occupation of the Danube Principalities in October, they moved to the Bosphorus and in November entered the Black Sea. |
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Despite its wide distribution, the Russian language is homogeneous throughout the country. |
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His ships with the frozen crews, including Captain Willoughby and his journal, were found by Russian fishermen a year later. |
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The allies advanced and on the morning of 20 September came up to the River Alma and the whole Russian army. |
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This caused a more widespread Russian retreat, including a number of their artillery units. |
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It took seven more weeks for the boats to reach Kola where they were rescued by a Russian merchant vessel. |
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The water utilities sector is one of the largest industries in Russia serving the entire Russian population. |
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Sevastopol remained invested by the allies, while the allied armies were hemmed in by the Russian Army in the interior. |
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Several weeks of fighting saw little change in the front line, and the Mamelon remained in Russian hands. |
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The main objective of the siege, the destruction of the Russian fleet and docks took place over winter. |
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Once through the Kerch Strait, British and French warships struck at every vestige of Russian power along the coast of the Sea of Azov. |
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In this way, Pyanda may have become the first Russian to meet Yakuts and Buryats. |
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This Allied campaign led to a significant reduction in supplies flowing to the besieged Russian troops at Sevastopol. |
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On 4 August Russian scouts saw a movement which they thought was the start of a withdrawal, the Russians advanced and the Turks attacked first. |
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Popularisation of events elsewhere overshadowed the significance of this theatre, which was close to Saint Petersburg, the Russian capital. |
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The outnumbered Russian Baltic Fleet confined its movements to the areas around its fortifications. |
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The blockade seriously undermined the Russian export economy and helped shorten the war. |
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In the same month, the Western Allied Baltic Fleet tried to destroy heavily defended Russian dockyards at Sveaborg outside Helsinki. |
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The Allies fired over 20,000 shells but failed to defeat the Russian batteries. |
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He successfully carried out the voyage to collect taxes from Zabaykalye Buryats, becoming the first Russian to step in Buryatia. |
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Russia feared losing Russian America without compensation in some future conflict, especially to the British. |
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The Russian physics school began with Lomonosov who proposed the law of conservation of matter preceding the energy conservation law. |
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Yakutsk soon turned into a major starting point for further Russian expeditions eastward, southward and northward. |
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After wintering, in 1644 Poyarkov pushed down the Zeya and became the first Russian to reach the Amur River. |
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The German, Russian and Belgian governments all provided state funding to the new industries. |
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The Norwegian soldiers from FSK Forsvarets Spesialkommando were the first to come in contact with the Russian troops at the airport. |
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Following the military campaign, the involvement of Russian peacekeepers proved to be tense and challenging to the NATO Kosovo force. |
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Eventually a deal was struck whereby Russian forces operated as a unit of KFOR but not under the NATO command structure. |
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There is a strong dependence on Russian energy that the EU has been attempting to reduce. |
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Yves Bouvier and Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, in litigation over art pricing, both have Mossack Fonseca companies. |
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Despite mediocre generalship, they managed to capture the Russian port of Sevastopol, compelling Tsar Nicholas I to ask for peace. |
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It is also the second most widely spoken Slavic language, after Russian and just ahead of Ukrainian. |
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A Methodist presence was continued in Russia for 14 years after the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the efforts of Deaconess Anna Eklund. |
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Disraeli drummed up support by warnings of a supposed Russian threat to India that sank deep into the Conservative mindset. |
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Today the Russian Orthodox Church is the largest of the Orthodox Churches followed by the Romanian Orthodox Church. |
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Up until 1666, when Patriarch Nikon was deposed by the tsar, the Russian Orthodox Church had been independent of the State. |
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During the Crimean War, a joint British and French fleet attacked the Russian fortresses in the Baltic. |
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But in 1959 Nikita Khrushchev initiated his own campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church and forced the closure of about 12,000 churches. |
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Old Believers are groups that do not accept liturgical reforms carried out in the Russian Orthodox Church by Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century. |
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A total of 415 animal species have been included in the Red Data Book of the Russian Federation as of 1997 and are now protected. |
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Russia was plunged into the Russian Revolution, which threw down the Tsarist monarchy and replaced it with the communist Soviet Union. |
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Despite mediocre generalship, they managed to capture the Russian port of Sevastopol, compelling Tsar Alexander II to ask for peace. |
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In Imperial Russia Burns was translated into Russian and became a source of inspiration for the ordinary, oppressed Russian people. |
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In May 1861 they moved to Warsaw, where Apollo joined the resistance against the Russian Empire. |
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To achieve the latter, he had to make many visits to the Russian Embassy in London and politely reiterate his request. |
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As the city lay only a few miles from the Russian border, there was a risk of getting stranded in a battle zone. |
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Petersburg student, the revolutionist Victor Haldin, who has assassinated a savagely repressive Russian government minister. |
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The Russian Mafia did not take too kindly to a Westerner muscling in on their market, and so decided to send a little message. |
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After 1991, the Communist Party lost its power and the Russian revolution was beginning, and with it came a freedom to express. |
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He translated works by Ivan Turgenev from Russian into English and, during the war, worked for the British Diplomatic Service. |
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Berlin was fluent in Russian and English, spoke French, German and Italian, and knew Hebrew, Latin, and Ancient Greek. |
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The Russian Federation and the Russian Empire are often combined outside of IOC sources. |
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Examples include the Russian Federation, USSR, the United States, Mexico, Brazil and India. |
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This also meant that Ezo, and the Kurile Islands beyond, were left essentially open to Russian colonization. |
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Another exception is army conscripts, who produce the Identity Card of the Russian Armed Forces. |
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The work permit is valid within the subject of the Russian Federation, in which it was issued. |
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Both the strip of land along the shore of the Arctic Ocean and the Russian Arctic islands have a polar climate. |
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The Russian military is divided into the Ground Forces, Navy, and Air Force. |
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During this same period, Russian ships also explored along the California coast and in 1812 established a trading post at Fort Ross. |
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The Russian settlements associated with Fort Ross were spread over an area stretching from Point Arena to Tomales Bay. |
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In 1809 Finland was incorporated into the Russian Empire as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. |
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Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Finland declared itself independent. |
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By this time Finland was the predominant term for the whole area from the Gulf of Bothnia to the Russian border. |
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In 1811, Alexander I incorporated Russian Vyborg province into the Grand Duchy of Finland. |
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It's so he can fly off in a swirl of self-justification to Um-beseir and his huge bed and his Russian hotsy-totsies. |
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The famine led the Russian Empire to ease financial regulations, and investment rose in following decades. |
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Mary also welcomed the first Russian ambassador to England, creating relations between England and Russia for the first time. |
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After the 1917 February Revolution, the position of Finland as part of the Russian Empire was questioned, mainly by Social Democrats. |
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This was rejected by the Russian Provisional Government which dissolved the parliament. |
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The government started to disarm the Russian forces in Pohjanmaa, and the Social Democratic Party staged a coup. |
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The Tsar Cannon, which is the world's largest bombard by caliber, is a masterpiece of Russian cannon making. |
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The Russian townlet of Zabaykalsk is situated immediately north of Abagaitu Islet and Manzhouli. |
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This era produced the first Russian university, library, theatre, public museum, and independent press. |
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The Russian enlightenment centered on the individual instead of societal enlightenment and encouraged the living of an enlightened life. |
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India is the largest customer of Russian military equipment and the two countries share extensive defense and strategic relations. |
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The resulting campaign witnessed the collapse and retreat of the Grand Army along with the widespread destruction of Russian lands and cities. |
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The Russian Federation has replaced its chief marshal ranks with general of the army for both army and air force officers. |
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The Kamchatka Peninsula, the Commander Islands, and Karaginsky Island constitute the Kamchatka Krai of the Russian Federation. |
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