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  • *Russians ( ru|русские , russkiye), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries ...
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  • A series of follow-up battles kept the Russians off-balance until the spring ... in perhaps as little as a month, the Russians could field around ten complete ...
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  • they recognized Russian sovereignty. The Russians founded the city of Ufa ... In 1676, the Bashkirs rebelled under a leader named Seit, and the ...
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  • patrolling Russian destroyers. The Russians were under orders not to ... to explode. But luck was against the Russians in so far as two of the ...
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  • and the losses incurred forced the Russians to withdraw the next day ... base at Kovno. This allowed the Russians to attack the extended French ...
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  • and Nikolay Danilevsky, Gumilev regarded Russians as a "super-ethnos ... of the Eurasian steppe, including the Russians, but also the Turkic-speaking ...
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  • "the rather weak Turks against the Russians. We also didn't want ... The Russians had to scuttle their ships and used the naval cannons ...
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  • " that is, one of those Russians who believed that Russia ... and essay (in the Western style) among the Russians. Also, Karamzin ...
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  • sympathies were on the side of the White Russians. This caused the Soviets ... the whole of mother Russia. A few White Russians continued to campaign for ...
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  • crimes. This was just two days before the Russians arrived. would rise to about 100,000. When the Russians finally took over, they ...
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  • understood and occasionally used by most Russians, with a meaning similar ... For fuel, instead of charcoal, Russians traditionally use dry pinecones ...
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  • a diverse citizen base of Kazakhs, Russians, Uzbeks, Germans, Poles ... The modern history of Almaty began on February 4, 1854, when the Russians ...
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  • rejected the plan and saw no need for the Russians to evacuate Warsaw. He sent ... but managed to convince the Russians to leave the Arsenal, the ...
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  • Like many spiritually-minded Russians, Rasputin spoke of salvation ... and licentiousness. To some Russians, especially the Communists ...
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  • Hossein and both the Ottomans and the Russians had seized Persian territory ... Persia became too weak to prevent the Russians, the British, and later ...
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  • priest armed only with a crucifix. The Russians captured the city after ... to well over a million, including numerous Russians. On April 26, 1966 ...
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  • attempt to block the Baltic Sea from the Russians in 1256. ... himself and achieved success in exempting Russians from fighting beside the ...
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  • at the Battle of Kolin. In summer, the Russians invaded East Prussia, and ... of 43,000 commanded by Count Fermor. The Russians withdrew from the field ...
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  • Germany and thereby afford protection against the Russians. The adoption of a new constitution had been delayed by the Civil War, and the legitimacy ...
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  • 10, 1837) was a Russian romantic writer whom most Russians consider their greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ...
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  • Корее- имена и судьбы (Russians in Korea - Names and Fates ... being sliced into pieces by the Japanese, Russians, Chinese and other powers ...
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  • Governor of the Military Okrug which the Russians established along the course ... of Uzbekistan's population, while Russians make up 5.5 percent, Tajiks ...
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  • Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič ...
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  • Asia and Northern Asia. For example, the Russians referred to various peoples ... Horde (for neighboring peoples, for example, Russians) * Turkic Muslim ...
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  • and the idea of the empire ruled by Russians were very controversial ... deputies: "You say "Russia for Russians," but whom do you mean ...
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  • 한국인/Sahallin Hangugin) denotes Russians citizens and/or residents ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...
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  • arrived at Sutter's Fort. The Russians offered to sell their land ... river gravel went to pay his debt to the Russians for his purchase of Fort Ross. ...
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  • Poland as he headed an army of 20,000-30,000 Russians (largely POWs) for a march on Moscow. Mereshkovsky proclaimed that Jozef Pilsudski was fulfilling ...
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  • The islands were explored by Russians in the seventeenth and eighteenth ... otter pelts drove the expansion of the Russians onto the islands and much ...
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  • and if this war doesn't end soon the Russians will be sitting in Berlin ... #039;s Court in Berlin, and when the Russians came they sent them to Moscow ...
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  • in Russia went by the name Soviet Korean. Russians often lump Koryo-saram under ... Siberian Railway, Koreans outnumbered Russians in the Russian Far East ...
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  • takeover in Greece would not only put the Russians on a particularly dangerous flank for the Turks, but strengthen the Soviet Union’s ability ...
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  • nomadic Altai came into contact with the Russians, who began to sedentarize ... brought large numbers of ethnic Russians to the area, and by 1950 ...
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  • goal of attaining individual liberty for Russians. Herzen understood the competing ... of society could not be answered and Russians must live for the moment ...
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  • Japan, where he was more favorably received. The Russians, under Czar Nicolas III, also became a customer before the Americans realized the value of ...
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  • strategic location was of interest to the Russians and British especially. ... by the British, while between them the Russians, Britons and Turks ran the ...
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  • ===Russians attack=== Shah, (1698-1747) in Shirvan forced the Russians to make an agreement near ...
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  • The Russians were ruthless in their expansion, using technology and ... collect sea otter pelts. Soon after the Russians had arrived on their island ...
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  • science, was marked, and he was one of the young Russians chosen to complete their education in foreign countries. == Foreign education == ...
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  • philosophical thinking among educated Russians, including the dry and abstract philosophizing of the German idealists and their Russian followers ...
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  • In the seventeenth century, the Russians began exploring what they claimed as the eastern reaches of their dominions. The first Russian maps ...
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  • suspicion between the British and the Russians eased in the face of several ... required in a battle. Nevertheless, the Russians did have a fine artillery ...
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  • routes. British, Canadians, Americans and Russians have sent expeditions to ... 
and Vast Resource-Rich Seabeds to Russians,] State Department Watch ...
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  • theft, treachery, stupidity of modern Russians." == Works == The greater part of Saltykov's work is a rather nondescript kind of satirical ...
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  • would eventually find defeating the Russians an increasingly difficult task. ... to the French, British, Germans, and Russians. The key problem faced by ...
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  • "language of the Latvians/English/Russians," "latviešu/angļu/krievu valoda." *In Ukrainian, an adverb is formed by removing ...
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  • Following World War II, the Russians occupied the Kurhaus, as the boundary with the British zone ran exactly along the Semmering Pass. ...
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  • of firearms initially supplied by the Russians. [http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/nenets.shtml "The Nenets"] The Peoples of the Red ...
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  • Islamic. At about the same time, some Russians also represented the struggle ... with one character asking whether, since Russians had "dispensed with ...
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  • and made a prisoner of war in 1916 by the Russians. He was sent to a POW camp ... massacres had been perpetrated against Russians by a Hungarian outsider ...
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