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*Russians ( ru|русские , russkiye), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries ...

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 ...

they recognized Russian sovereignty. The Russians founded the city of Ufa ... In 1676, the Bashkirs rebelled under a leader named Seit, and the ...

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 ...

and the losses incurred forced the Russians to withdraw the next day ... base at Kovno. This allowed the Russians to attack the extended French ...

and Nikolay Danilevsky, Gumilev regarded Russians as a "super-ethnos ... of the Eurasian steppe, including the Russians, but also the Turkic-speaking ...

"the rather weak Turks against the Russians. We also didn't want ... The Russians had to scuttle their ships and used the naval cannons ...

" that is, one of those Russians who believed that Russia ... and essay (in the Western style) among the Russians. Also, Karamzin ...

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 ...

crimes. This was just two days before the Russians arrived. would rise to about 100,000. When the Russians finally took over, they ...

understood and occasionally used by most Russians, with a meaning similar ... For fuel, instead of charcoal, Russians traditionally use dry pinecones ...

a diverse citizen base of Kazakhs, Russians, Uzbeks, Germans, Poles ... The modern history of Almaty began on February 4, 1854, when the Russians ...

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 ...

Like many spiritually-minded Russians, Rasputin spoke of salvation ... and licentiousness. To some Russians, especially the Communists ...

Hossein and both the Ottomans and the Russians had seized Persian territory ... Persia became too weak to prevent the Russians, the British, and later ...

priest armed only with a crucifix. The Russians captured the city after ... to well over a million, including numerous Russians. On April 26, 1966 ...

attempt to block the Baltic Sea from the Russians in 1256. ... himself and achieved success in exempting Russians from fighting beside the ...

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 ...

Germany and thereby afford protection against the Russians. The adoption of a new constitution had been delayed by the Civil War, and the legitimacy ...

10, 1837) was a Russian romantic writer whom most Russians consider their greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ...

Корее- имена и судьбы (Russians in Korea - Names and Fates ... being sliced into pieces by the Japanese, Russians, Chinese and other powers ...

Governor of the Military Okrug which the Russians established along the course ... of Uzbekistan's population, while Russians make up 5.5 percent, Tajiks ...

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič ...

Asia and Northern Asia. For example, the Russians referred to various peoples ... Horde (for neighboring peoples, for example, Russians) * Turkic Muslim ...

and the idea of the empire ruled by Russians were very controversial ... deputies: "You say "Russia for Russians," but whom do you mean ...

한국인/Sahallin Hangugin) denotes Russians citizens and/or residents ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...

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. ...

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 ...

The islands were explored by Russians in the seventeenth and eighteenth ... otter pelts drove the expansion of the Russians onto the islands and much ...

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 ...

in Russia went by the name Soviet Korean. Russians often lump Koryo-saram under ... Siberian Railway, Koreans outnumbered Russians in the Russian Far East ...

takeover in Greece would not only put the Russians on a particularly dangerous flank for the Turks, but strengthen the Soviet Union’s ability ...

nomadic Altai came into contact with the Russians, who began to sedentarize ... brought large numbers of ethnic Russians to the area, and by 1950 ...

goal of attaining individual liberty for Russians. Herzen understood the competing ... of society could not be answered and Russians must live for the moment ...

Japan, where he was more favorably received. The Russians, under Czar Nicolas III, also became a customer before the Americans realized the value of ...

strategic location was of interest to the Russians and British especially. ... by the British, while between them the Russians, Britons and Turks ran the ...

===Russians attack=== Shah, (1698-1747) in Shirvan forced the Russians to make an agreement near ...

The Russians were ruthless in their expansion, using technology and ... collect sea otter pelts. Soon after the Russians had arrived on their island ...

science, was marked, and he was one of the young Russians chosen to complete their education in foreign countries. == Foreign education == ...

philosophical thinking among educated Russians, including the dry and abstract philosophizing of the German idealists and their Russian followers ...

In the seventeenth century, the Russians began exploring what they claimed as the eastern reaches of their dominions. The first Russian maps ...

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 ...

routes. British, Canadians, Americans and Russians have sent expeditions to ... 
and Vast Resource-Rich Seabeds to Russians,] State Department Watch ...

theft, treachery, stupidity of modern Russians." == Works == The greater part of Saltykov's work is a rather nondescript kind of satirical ...

would eventually find defeating the Russians an increasingly difficult task. ... to the French, British, Germans, and Russians. The key problem faced by ...

"language of the Latvians/English/Russians," "latviešu/angļu/krievu valoda." *In Ukrainian, an adverb is formed by removing ...

Following World War II, the Russians occupied the Kurhaus, as the boundary with the British zone ran exactly along the Semmering Pass. ...

of firearms initially supplied by the Russians. [http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/nenets.shtml "The Nenets"] The Peoples of the Red ...

Islamic. At about the same time, some Russians also represented the struggle ... with one character asking whether, since Russians had "dispensed with ...

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 ...

After the Russians reoccupied Lithuania, Shtromas was found by Antanas Sniečkus, a Soviet general who had known his father, and who took him ...

By this point the Russians had managed to draft large numbers of reinforcements ... could be found it became clear that the Russians had left the city unconditionally ...

could survive in zero gravity. Once the Russians had progressed to flights ... Russians were the first to take pictures of the far side of the moon ...

beyond capacity. It didn't take long for Russians to espouse her as their own. Critics referred to her as "our" Taglioni, as did the ...

Project should be shared with the Russians in the hope of speeding up its results. Roosevelt suggested Bohr return to England to try to win ...

in Constanța, Romania, and after the Russians recovered the ship, her ... from using them against the White Russians. She was abandoned when ...

fled to the North to seek refuge with the Russians. Approximately 80 percent ... of the Steppe: The Struggle of the Russians, Manchus, and the Zunghar ...

neighboring groups, and then with the Russians by the end of the nineteenth ... Arctic Eskimos as savages, these later Russians regarded them more favorably ...

and often times hyper-cerebral style of the Russians influenced future authors of the format, including Kafka and Russian-American Ayn Rand. ...

exist in northern Kazakhstan, and ethnic Russians comprise 25.6 percent of ... . Only about a quarter of them are ethnic Russians, however. Before the dissolution ...

that the name comes from the period the Russians first encountered the people ... all of Central Asia. In 1876, the Russians dissolved the Khanate of ...

* Milner-Gulland, Robin. The Russians. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1997. ISBN 0631218491 * [http://hudce7.harvard.edu/~ostrowski/pvl/ Online ...

moved from rural areas but also many ethnic Russians and Ukrainians who had been recruited to fill positions in industry and government. ...

Stalin's time. The average lifespan of Russians has decreased by five years since the collapse of the communist system, and inadequate health care ...

The Horde exacted tribute from its subject peoples—Russians, Armenians, Georgians, and Crimean Greeks. The territories of Christian subjects ...

died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. Being held in some crowded ... died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. A major epidemic occurred ...

exist, such as Poles (6.7 percent), Russians (6.3 percent), and Belarusians ... Lithuania in the Vilnius region. Russians are the second largest minority ...

both of which were conquered by the Russians in the course of the sixteenth ... He said, "Without this river the Russians could not live." ...

War, 1656-1658, Riga withstood a siege by Russians. It remained the second ... Soviet republics into Riga, particularly Russians, changed the demographic ...

Commonwealth, created in 1569. The Russians, led by Tsar Ivan the III ... jobs and bringing an influx of ethnic Russians into the republic. The borders ...

Theresienstadt was liberated by the Russians. Baeck prevented his fellow inmates from killing their guards. His experience of the Holocaust ...

of the symbolic nature of Katyń. Russians and Poles, tortured to death ... soil. However, in September that year Russians also raised the issue of ...

and over half of the Soviet population. Russians also dominated the Soviet ... of the Russian people in the 1990s. Russians on fixed incomes (the vast ...

draw at Eylau (February 7–8) forced the Russians to withdraw further north ... draw, but Napoleon eventually forced the Russians to back down, thus opening ...

Poland were not negotiable—the Russians were to keep territory from the eastern portion of Poland and Poland was to compensate for that by ...

and outrage across Europe. It was the Russians, who saw themselves as friends and allies of the Slav population in the Balkans who were provoked ...

Tatars, Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, and Russians, and arbitrarily drawn borders ... was used until the mid-1920s by the Russians to distinguish them from ...

Beginning with Peter I (the Great), the Russians occupied Moldavia ... The Russians granted autonomy in 1818 which remained until 1828. A ...

started waging a holy war against the Russians. Mansur hoped to establish ... Shamil remained successful while the Russians were occupied with the Crimean ...

all its men. At Tannenberg 92,000 Russians surrendered during the battle. When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20,000 Russians ...

that the Russians had suffered a severe defeat at Plevna, and were ... #039;s independence from both the Turks and the Russians. ...

right to block certain proposals. Many Russians felt that the reform did ... The dominating element of the Empire, the Russians, fall into three ...

were burnt down by the Germans as the Russians came near, and much of the ... of up to 1.5 million Jews, Roma, Poles, Russians, and prisoners of various ...

*Hosking, Geoffrey. Russia and the Russians: A History. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University. 2001. ISBN 0674011147 *Julicher, Peter. ...

25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic Russians, who were mostly employed ... Being more technologically advanced, the Russians had little difficulty in ...

of his interest in Russia and the history of the Russians, he remained a true Swiss, attached to his native land." The couple had two children ...

Turkmen population, with minorities of ethnic Russians, Armenians, and Azeris. The Türkmen language, a member of the East Oghuz branch of Turkic, is ...

The Russians under Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly ingeniously ... During their strategic retreat, the Russians used the scorched earth ...

Approximately 54 percent of the ethnic Russians living in Latvia are citizens ... In some large cities such as Daugavpils and Rēzekne, Russians and ...

Project, had given key documents to the Russians throughout the war. Through ... conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before ...

and the wood-carving genius of the Russians than anything else. The first ceiling-high, five-leveled Russian iconostasis was designed for the ...

a stalemate between the Ottomans and the Russians. The Russians used their ... religious cohorts in the empire. Thus the Russians became guardians of the ...

The Russians had no contingency plans for a partial mobilization, ... in on the vast Eastern Front, where the Russians were facing the combined ...

and diplomatic initiatives by the Russians, the French and the Americans, Korea opened to foreign trade by the Japanese treaty of Treaty of Ganghwa ...

launched Sputnik I. Out of concern that the Russians were beating the U.S. in the space race, which had military implications, and that there were not ...

personal savings, and tens of millions of Russians were plunged into poverty. ... severely compromised. Millions of native Russians found themselves in the ...

dialect from their close interaction with Russians. In 1798 the Tsarist government ... being increasingly encroached upon by the Russians from the north, the Kazakhs ...

Russians intensified their hold in the region in the eighteenth century ... time, accusing him of working with the Russians. Hundreds of combatants ...

* Rougle, Charles. Three Russians Consider America: America in the works of Maksim Gorkij, Aleksandr Blok, and Vladimir Majakovsky. Stockholm: ...

a secret society of Bulgarians to assist the Russians in the Crimean War. While being deported to Istanbul, he escaped, and gathered together a group ...

on the front line before he was captured by the Russians in 1915. He had a relatively easy time in the Russian concentration camps, in which the Czechs ...

#039;s population in 2000, Uzbeks 15.3 percent, Russians 1.1 percent, Kyrgyz 1.1 percent, and others made up 2.6 percent. Tajik is the official language ...

The charred remains were found by the Russians and secretly buried at the SMERSH compound in Magdeburg, East Germany along with the bodies of ...

After a failed revolt in Bulgaria, the Russians intervened to assist their fellow Slavs and defeated the Ottomans in February, 1878. The terms ...

During one Soviet counter-attack, the Russians lost an entire division ... sealing the ring around Stalingrad. The Russians filmed this linkup for later ...

Most Armenians, Russians, and West Europeans believe that the massacres ... of 1877-1878. At the end of this war the Russians took control over a large ...

#039;s population. Other ethnic groups include Russians (9.0 percent) concentrated in the north and Uzbeks (14.5 percent) living in the south. Small ...

After all, the sacrifice made by the Russians and the Chinese is enormous, and they are ready to risk all. The same could be said of the other ...

miracle, as did the American squad in 1960, the Russians are expected to win the Olympic gold medal for the sixth time in the last seven tournaments." ...

consciousness of self. But it suits the Russians and is as familiar, natural ... Under the title "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving" Duranty ...

Russia was a multi-ethnic empire. Nineteenth-century Russians saw ... was an attempt to secure the support of Russians. Weeks, 475. ...

monetary indemnity were claimed from China by the Russians, Germans, French, and British. The experience of the events leading up to and surrounding this ...

are decorated with greenery, and among the Russians the clergy and faithful carry flowers and green branches in their hands during the services. ...

Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Safavid Persians, Russians and the Soviet Union. ... around 99% of the population. Ethnic Russians and a minority of Kurds ...

a Moscow press conference, she declared that the Russians were "just like us." In Artek, she chose to stay with the Soviet children ...

had been spying on the Japanese military for the Russians. He was about to be decapitated as a "public example." The other Chinese gathered ...

Caspian coast a favorite vacation spot for Russians. ==International Disputes== There are three major issues regulated by the Caspian Sea status: ...

the firm that discovered the hacking said Russians were stealing email credentials ... Prague rendezvous to the claims that Russians hacked Vermont's power ...

Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 - October 23, 1946) was born in England of Scottish parents. He was raised in Canada and became a naturalized ...

and the rest are Tungusic-speakers, Chinese, and Russians. Most, but not all, Russians left the country following the withdrawal of economic aid and ...

Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya ( Надежда Константиновна Крупская , scientific transliteration ...

is said to derive from the period the Russians first encountered the people ... European cultures were introduced. The Russians ended slavery, brought the ...

been destroyed by bombing or when the invading Russians burned the German fortification where it was stored. It is presumed lost. It was re-created in 2003 ...

others theorize that it was destroyed by the Russians in a secret confrontation.Ed Offley, [http://members.aol.com/bear317d/scorpion.htm "The USS ...

but later even Poles, Ukrainians and southern Russians. The Janissaries started accepting enrollment from outside the devshirmeh system first ...

sequence in Nevsky is a battle between the Russians and the Teutons that takes place on the ice. Nevsky is also noteworthy for Eisenstein's close ...

Orthodox Christianity between Georgians and Russians was acknowledged, and Georgia’s primate, the Catholicos, became Russia’s eighth, permanent archbishop ...

diverse population. This gives many native Russians a chance to live with and encounter people from different cultures, ethnicities, and religions, sometimes ...

teachers on a great scale, the first to send young Russians abroad to be educated, the first to allow Lutheran churches to be built in Russia. Having ...

In 1480, Ivan III had finally broken the Russians free from Tatar control ... The film struck such a chord with Russians, watching on their standard ...

bі́tva, Battle of Grunwald) by Russians, *Гру́нвальдзкая ... Due to the participation of the Smolensk regiment in the battle, Russians ...

Latin and Greek Churches (1054)" and the Russians "quickly learned to despise the Catholics as 'heretics'." ...

would later say that he wished the Russians were building their own ... not pressed for an early H-bomb test, the Russians' own development might ...

Lithuanians, Letts, Belarusians, and Russians. Although in the eleventh century they comprised only three percent of the world's Jewish ...

in Kandahar, they split up. One of the Russians was directly escorted to ... and to have given them a letter which the Russians didn't bother to translate ...

received the education commonly given to young Russians of good family at that time: a smattering of a great many subjects and exposure to the chief modern ...

wooden racks for shells to be shipped out to the Russians. With the added work hours, and responsibility, Gene got sick with pneumonia, an illness that ...

* Curtin, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1999. ISBN 978-0486409054 ...

Håkon also entered negotiations with the Russians regarding border dispute and signed a treaty establishing their Northern boundary. In 1240 ...

poetry "inspired a generation of young Russians in their fight against Stalinism during the Cold War." Raymond H. Anderson, [https://www ...

* The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais, 1872 ) * The Fur Country ...

than half of the army went to fight the Russians on their border, and the ... one hundred thousand troops against the Russians, called the Battle of Sarikamis ...

in an article entitled "The Russians Have Fixed World Chess" ... * Plisetsky, Dmitry, and Sergey Voronkov, ed. Russians Vs. Fischer ...

in 1650s, which ended with a Qing victory. The Russians invaded the northern frontier again in 1680s. After series of battles and negotiations, the two ...

| ethnic_groups = 68.4% Estonians,24.7% Russians,1.9% Ukrainians,0 ... it as their first foreign language. Some Russians residing in Estonia do not ...

*The Future Is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians (1960), published under the pseudonym "Joseph Novak" *No Third Path (1962 ...

as Denali, meaning “The High One,” while Russians called it Bolshaya Gora, or “Great Mountain.” It received its current name in 1896, in ...

of collaboration; and slave labor (primarily Russians and eastern Europeans) being brought to the islands to build fortifications. The Royal Navy ...

In the summer of 2007, the Russians claimed a “great scientific discovery” that involved “more than 100 scientists on board the Akademik ...

Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American ...

is that Russian literature is not only written by Russians. In the Soviet times such popular writers as Belorussian Vasil Bykov, Kyrgyz Chinghiz Aitmatov ...

and Arctic tourism expeditions. The Russians have commented that a nuclear reactor that sinks, such as the similar reactor involved in the Kursk ...

Despite having little connection with Saint Patrick or Ireland, Russians ... com/politics_and_society/2017/03/20/why-russians-celebrate-catholic-saint ...

percent of Uzbekistan's population in 1996, Russians 5.5 percent, Tajiks 5 percent, Kazakhs 3 percent, Karakalpaks 2.5 percent, Tatars 1.5 percent ...

Norman Naimark writes in The Russians in Germany: A History of the ... * Norman M. Naimark. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet ...

of Sitka. Despite these efforts, the Russians never fully colonized Alaska ... who encroached on territory claimed by Russians, were also becoming a force ...

in defense of his Orthodox subjects, and the Russians began to interfere regularly in the internal affairs of the Ottoman Empire. This, combined ...

after the war, the US wanted to make the Russians withdraw from Austria, and the Russians wanted to keep Austria neutral, therefore there was ...

* Russians and other non-local landlords were allowed to remain in the Hetmate, but no new peasants could be brought in from the North. ...

failed to create a Ukraine free from the Russians." ... 1999, ISBN 0521311985). as the White Russians—representative of the ...

jpg "Centenary of Ballets Russians of Diaghilev"] went ... jpg « Centenary of Ballets Russians of Diaghilev »] * [https://www ...

intervention in Russia, arguing that the Russians were contributing to the ... other revolutionaries showed to the Russians. The latter believed the ...

first Allied commander to make contact with the Russians as they advanced from the East. Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint ...

Russians refer to the event as the "Caribbean Crisis." Cubans refer to it as the "October Crisis." ==Background== ...

become a Russian proverb, whose origin many Russians do not even recognize. [[Image:O henry museum 2007.jpg|thumb|The O. Henry Museum in Austin ...

The second largest ethnic group was Russians, who in 2006 formed roughly ... of the Soviet period altered this. Russians, Jews, and Armenians were ...

issued a fatwa in which he stated that once the Russians were ejected from Afghanistan, it would not be permissible for us to take sides." ...

city’s economic growth. It was taken by the Russians after the Siege of Danzig in 1734. By 1754, Danzig had a population of 77,000, the largest of any ...

The ancestors of the Russians were the Slavic tribes, whose original ... cities of northeast Russia, routed the Russians at the Sit' River, ...

At the end of the Second World War, the British and Russians experimented ... and twin torpedoes. It was sold to the Russians, but proved unstable, ran ...

without British military support. After the Russians sent an uninvited diplomatic mission to Kabul in 1878, tensions renewed and Britain demanded that ...

trading post two years prior. Though the Russians' initial assault (in ... across the Indian River at site of the Russians' landing. In September ...

on speed and quickness was introduced by the Russians and Italians. The new focus on speed and the introduction of the electronic scoring machine ...

fighting the Poles, the Danes, the Swedes, the Russians of ancient Novgorod, and the Lithuanians (last Europeans to convert to Christianity). ...

always voted for freeing Hess while knowing the Russians would overrule it, but when Gorbachev came to power this became less likely, thus the "need ...

offensives were to be mounted by the Russians in the East, the Italians ... had to sustain operations against the French and Russians. ...

cultures from those of the dominant nations (Russians, Germans, Austrians, Turks, etc.). Patriotism, nationalism, revolution and armed struggle for independence ...

Chinese tanks equipped with the 105 mm gun. The Russians have also displayed a similar if more advanced system in the Reflex. The system involves an ...

German scientists from being captured by the Russians. The scientific advisor to the Operation was the Dutch-American physicist Samuel Goudsmit, who ...

attempts to maintain scientific secrets from the Russians would be of little benefit to the U.S. since they would probably obtain such secrets anyway ...

Ukrainians but also Circassians, Russians, Belarusians and Poles, ... The Russians were defeated in 1662. The War for Ukraine ended with ...

of this theme, and was a prime example of what Russians call poshlost, characterized by banality and venality. ==Early life== Fyodor Sologub was ...

streak in modern sports history. (In 2002, Russians Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze were forced to share gold with Canadians Jamie Salé and ...

The arrival of the Russians on May 9 put an end to the constant nightmare. Once he was certain that his workers were out of danger, Schindler ...

include Hui Chinese, the Kirgiz, the Mongols, the Russians, the Xibes, the Tajiks, the Uzbeks, the Tatars, the Daurs, and the Manchus. ...

racist because of its connection with white Russians. James Cone admits that his interest in Marxism for social and economic change was renewed in the ...

Genovese, Tatars, Ottomans, and Russians. The oldest processed gold in the world, arguably left by Old Europeans, was found in Varna, and the ...

:6th – German and Austro-Hungarian counter-attack. Russians retreat in panic, sacking the town of Tarnopol. Arrest of Bolshevik leaders ordered. ...

The Russian Civil War caused some 3 million Russians, Poles, and Germans to migrate out of the Soviet Union. World War II and decolonization also ...

by accepting ethnic minorities as Russians, he reversed his position. Weber advocated democracy as a means for selecting strong leaders. He viewed ...

Ukrainians but also Circassians, Russians, Belarusians and Poles, ... population, while most of remainder are Russians with small numbers of Belarusians ...

It’s A Wonderful Life to 200 million Russians who celebrated an American holiday tradition with the American people for the first time in Russian ...

Limmat, attacked and totally defeated the Russians and their Austrian allies ... Limmat, attacked and totally defeated the Russians and their Austrian allies ...

polls indicate that a majority of Russians are pleased with the result of the individual aims of perestroika, Gorbachev's chief legislative ...

nations. The fur trade was also practiced by the Russians on the northwest coast of North America. After the French and Indian War, the British were ...

was to secure Hokkaidō before the Russians extended their control of the Far East beyond Vladivostok. Kuroda Kiyotaka was put in charge, and ...

By April, the whole battalion was captured by the Russians. After several months at the hospital, Broz was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains ...

Khwarizm. Timur supported Tokhtamysh against Russians and Tokhtamysh, with armed support by Timur, invaded Russia and in 1382 captured Moscow. After the ...

Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin ( Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин|p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsɨɡʲɪn ...

near dissolution, was coming to effect by the Russians declaration of war on April 24, 1877 and following Russian victory by February 1878. Abdul ...

Brighton Beach is home to many Russians. Since 1990, Brooklyn has seen a rise in new immigration to neighborhoods like Sunset Park, home to ...

and ethnic groups residing within Kiev. Russians arecomprise 13.1 percent, Jews 0.7 percent, Belarusians 0.6 percent, Poles 0.3 percent, Armenians ...

to add a stanza to his poem which said that Russians and Ukrainians had died alongside the Jews at Babi Yar. ===Later life=== In later life, Shostakovich ...

agent on our side and all his buttering up of the Russians is 'cover'." There is so much weariness and disappointment in travel ...

Italians, Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Peruvians, Russians, Salvadoran, Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Turks, South Africans, and Venezuelans, as well as a sizable ...

seekers. In contrast, the British repatriated the Russians who fought on the side of Germany to the USSR, and they all perished in the Gulag. ...

In Manchukuo there were also some anti-Communist White Russians, leaders known as the "Duce" Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky and ...

The eighteenth century marked a burst of exploration by the Russians in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, the French in Polynesia, and the British ...

smaller Greek minority (to Greece), and Russians (to Russia). Other groups ... (close to 70 percent), and ethnic Russians are the next largest group ...

in Russia in order to force the Russians to sue for peace. To that ... The Russians did remain active on the south-eastern front, however ...

| Russians || 5,020 || 0.022 percent |} Excludes members of the People's Liberation Army in active service. Source: Department of Population ...

Heavy terms were imposed on China, the Russians occupied Manchuria, and ... The first mission was undertaken by Russians in the seventeenth century ...

number of its forces in Manchuria by 1903. The Russians repeatedly stalled negotiations between the two nations (1901–1904) to establish mutual recognition ...

the coffee table with Dr. Floyd and the Russians, involving mounting tension ... space station between Dr. Floyd and the Russians in 2001 is the same as the ...

Havana has a significant minority of Chinese, Russians mostly living in Habana del Este who emigrated during the Soviet era, and several thousand North ...

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев|p=ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj (j)ɪfˈsʲe(j)ɪvʲɪdʑ zʲɪˈnovʲjɪf ...

In May 1853, the Russians threatened to invade the principalities Wallachia and Moldavia unless the Ottoman Sultan surrendered to their demands ...

descent, are British, Germans, French, Swiss, Russians, Portuguese, Poles, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians, Dutch ...

control them in hand-held shooting, and when the Russians saw the success of the M-16 with its .22 caliber round, they switched from their .30 caliber ...

by Mongols, Ottomans, Habsburgs, Russians, before it became the political center of the Kingdom of Romania, Bucharest has been occupied by Germany ...

and northwest. These include Tibetans, Russians, Uyghurs, Manchus, Zhuang, Dai, Naxi, Miao, Wa, Yi, Lisu and Mongolians. ===Tibet=== ...

on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the ... Serbs, Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Poles, Russians, Roma (also known as gypsies ...

(later called FRG Federal Republic of Germany). Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, etc. were then moved onto German land. Soviet attempts at ...

and uninvited immigration of ethnic Russians and other soviet nationalities. Even in other post-Soviet states which had formally acceded, most ...

Modern Russians interpret the icon not as a killing but as a struggle, against ourselves and the evil among us. The dragon never dies but the ...

approval). In the summer of 1915, the Russians invaded Bukovina and the Reich brothers fled to Vienna, losing everything. In his Passion of Youth ...

with Han Chinese, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Russians. Thousands of Uyghurs also live in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. "Xinjiang," meaning ...

point-blank why he had slaughtered so many Russians, but many of her criticisms were translated into innocuous statements instead. This led many of ...

Americans, Eastern Europeans such as Russians and Bosnians, and groups from Iran, Somalia, and West Africa. Most groups have settled in the Greater ...

On April 30, with the Russians advancing to within a few hundred yards of the bunker, Hitler dictated his last will and testament, to which Goebbels ...

for military and agricultural trade with the Russians. The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides. In Turkey, the campaign is known ...

also fought alongside the advancing Russians. The coalition was able ... the most numerous of which are the Russians, Armenians, Vlachs, Jews ...

Empire expanded still further when the Russians defeated the Ottoman Turks in 1878. An international congress (the Congress of Berlin) was held ...

not only the British people, but also the French, Russians, and Japanese all in one fell swoop by implying, inter alia, that the Germans cared nothing ...

Moroccans, Nigerians, Indians, Romanians, Russians, Chinese and Gypsies from the Balkans. === Cuisine === The cuisine of Sicily shows traces ...

Guderian also noted in his memoirs that "the Russians already learned a few things." Guderian, 318. Elsewhere, massive Soviet counterattacks ...

peoples, and it is still predominant among the Russians, Ukrainians, Serbians, Bulgarians, people of the Republic of Macedonia, as well as among the ...

as did Lev Termen and many other prominent Russians. Solzhenitsyn's book, The First Circle describes life in a sharashka. ===United Kingdom=== ...

victims were ethnic Ukrainians, 4.5 percent Russians, 1.4 percent Jews and 1.1 percent were Poles.Sergei Maksudov, "Losses Suffered by the Population ...

freedom Flight From Freedom: What Russians Think and Want] Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004. Retrieved October 19, 2022. Most statues of Lenin have ...

care what happens in Russia! I know that the Russians pay with bills, and I should prefer to know that their bills are paid! I care about the Communist ...

[http://en.rian.ru/society/20120204/171125937.html "Russians Rally as Putin Hints Reforms, Warns of Regime Change,"] Sputnik International ...

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin ( link=no|Александр Иванович Куприн ) ( September 7|1870|August 26 in Narovchat  – August ...

played a key role in the victory over the White Russians (opponents to the Bolshevik revolution), favored “permanent revolution” emphasizing that ...

prevent a CPC takeover of Manchuria, asked the Russians to delay their withdrawal until he had moved enough troops into the region. KMT troops were airlifted ...

The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has ...

success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians." The trials were portrayed in the film version of Joseph Davies' "Mission ...

. RAF briefing notes mentioned a desire to show "the Russians, when they arrive, what Bomber Command can do." Whether this was a statement ...

early twentieth centuries, huge numbers of Russians, Poles, Estonians, Scandinavians, Icelanders, and Hungarians immigrated to Canada's Prairies ...

By 1917, the majority of Russians had lost faith in the Tsarist regime. Thousands of workers flooded the streets of Petrograd to show their dissatisfaction ...

Europe. They were soon followed by Chinese, Russians, Poles and immigrants from other Eastern European nations, as the Irish before them, many of these ...

agency, to return to Russia to write portraits of Russians. The first of these appeared in print in June 1922 and led to her second book, Mirrors of ...

it was the body of Maria that was missing. The Russians identified Anastasia by using a computer program to compare photos of the youngest grand duchess ...

control of Iraq and Kuwait. The British and Russians would invade the neighboring Iran in September of that year. ===Wealth and independence=== ...

#039;s goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." David Reynolds (ed.), The Origins of the Cold War ...

troops in the Great Northern War 1710-1721. The Russians retaliated brutally on civilian populace; the period is called Isoviha (Grand Hatred) in Finland. ...

Hakodate, such as the Americans, French, and Russians, but was not able to garner any international recognition or support. Enomoto offered to confer ...

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont ( Константи́н Дми́триевич Бальмо́нт|p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ ...

came from Danzig, which was occupied by the Russians, so her relatives came to live with them in Munich. There were so many people living in the Fassbinder’s ...

as Truman wanted to keep the Chinese and Russians out of the conflict. MacArthur was also to transfer munitions to the ROK Army, while using ...

non-German nationals. Poles and Russians were often used, as well as Gypsies and Jews. As a matter of fact, Himmler's racial policies required ...

Others include Azeris, Armenians, Russians, Abkhazians, and Ossetians. Numerous smaller groups include Assyrians, Chechens, Chinese, Georgian ...

of Yazidis (Kurds). Other minorities include Russians,Assyrians, Ukrainians, Greeks, Poles, Caucasus Germans, Udis, and Tats. Most Azerbaijanis ...

and the "Window to the West" by the Russians. ... |style="text-align:left;" | Russians |2,775,979 ...

relieve pressure on the French, as well as the Russians who had also suffered great losses. On 1 July, after a week of heavy rain, British divisions ...

September 20, 2008. These "White Russians"—representative of the old Russian Empire—were willing to accept only limited independence ...

British designs upon their territory and kept the Russians at bay during the so-called Great Game. Afghanistan remained an independent nation that played ...

without strong moral authority in the lead, the Russians wouldn't be able to get rid of the vices they'd acquired through centuries of slavery ...

reach in 1951, everybody had to assume that the Russians could also do it, and that was the main reason why they changed their stance in favor of developing ...

one of which, Gustav V, survived until 1970. The Russians also scrapped four large incomplete cruisers in the late 1950s, whilst plans to build new ...

being leaked, it became imperative to expel the Russians from Egypt. In July 1972, Sadat expelled almost all of the 20,000 Soviet military advisers ...

" the Banks were "in the hands of the Russians, Britons and Turks." The currency was "printed and issued" by the British, who ...

majority were Chinese, the victims also comprised Russians, Mongolians, Koreans, and other populations. There are reports that the victims also consisted ...

General Kurt Von Tippleskirch noted, "The Russians had indeed lost a battle, but they won the campaign".Bergstrom, 2007, 70. ...

Arthur open to trade by cooperating with the Russians in granting a loan to the Chinese government. Arguing that British naval power could not stop ...

escaping the pogroms and later the Shoah, White Russians fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Russian and other socialist or communist revolutionaries ...

Macedonians, Slovenes, Hungarians, Russians, Egyptians, Italians, Germans, and others. ===Religion=== Montenegro is a multireligious country ...

soldiers died under Nazi maltreatment in what the Russians call the Great Patriotic War. The Nazis' plan was to extend German Lebensraum ("living ...

their lives due to violence on the part of the Russians, Polish, and Czech, though Polish and Czech historians dispute this figure. ...

"Hating Slavism and the Russians, who had striven to underline [Slavic influences in Romanian], he said to himself that he was to serve ...

of the world's current special forces. The Russians referred to him as the "British Bulldog." In 1940, Britain stood alone (with her ...

European Jews during the nineteenth century; Russians after the revolution of 1917; colonial citizens during World War I and later; Poles between the ...

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four millions Prisoners of War taken by the Russians, (including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others), some 580,000 never returned ...

John Noble Wilford, [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/18/us/russians-finally-admit-they-lost-race-to-moon.html "Russians Finally Admit They ...

now more and more frequented by Eastern Europeans, Russians and Americans. Ever since the end of the World War II, Austria has achieved sustained ...

Croats, Bosnians, Greeks, Poles, Vietnamese, and Russians). While most of the German citizens are ethnic Germans (67.1 million or 81.4 percent) or naturalized ...