Definitions Russia is the coldest country of the world. (Web site) Russia was plunged into the Russian Revolution, after which the Tsarist monarchy was replaced by the communist Soviet Union. (Web site) Russia is the most ethnically diverse population out of the 15 union republics of the former Soviet Union, with more than 70 distinct nationalities. Russia is the largest partner for Belarus in the economic and political fields. (Web site) Russia is a fusion of two geologic platforms: the European and the Asiatic. (Web site)

Russia

1. Historically, Karelia was a region to the northwest of Russia, east of present-day Finland, controlled by the Novgorod Republic. (Web site)
2. Russia and the Caucasus states are classified as European.
3. Q Russia continues to protest loudly about the NATO bombings of the Bosnian Serbs. (Web site)
4. Rurik founded the first Russia n state with a capital at Novgorod.
5. Slovakia imports nearly all of its oil and gas from Russia and its export markets are primarily OECD and EU countries.

Rus

1. Vladimir and RognedaFor the etymology of the terms Rus and Russia, see Etymology of Rus and derivatives. (Web site)
2. Russia later claimed to be the sole successor to Kievan Rus' and often blurred the line between the two. (Web site)
3. Belarus's name roughly translates to "White Rus" or white Russia.
4. The original Rus' was Kievan Rus', which existed for centuries before Muscovy (which would later become Russia) gained significance. (Web site)

Russian

1. The history of Russia begins with that of the East Slavs, the ethnic group that eventually split into the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.
2. Russia maintained a scorched earth policy of retreat broken only by the battle of Borodino ( September 7), when the Russians stood and fought.
3. The cossacks turned toward Orthodox Russia, which was one reason for the later downfall of the Polish-Lithuanian state.
4. Belarusians converted to the Russian Orthodox Church after Belarus was annexed by Russia after the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
5. The Belarusian ruble was introduced in May 1992 in response to a shortage of Russian rubles with which to pay fuel and other debts to Russia. (Web site)

Union

1. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. (Web site)
2. The history of Russia between 1922 and 1991 is essentially the history of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union.
3. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia lost the superpower status that it had won in the Second World War.
4. Belarus and Russia have been close trading partners and diplomatic allies since the breakup of the Soviet Union. (Web site)
5. The history of Russia between 1922 and 1991 is essentially the history of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union.

Ukraine

1. The Saeima, Latvia's parliament, was again elected in 1993, and Russia completed its military withdrawal in 1994.
2. This time Russia obtained most of Belarus and Ukraine west of the Dnieper river. (Web site)
3. Russia obtained left-bank Ukraine, east of the Dnieper River and including Kiev; Poland retained right-bank Ukraine. (Web site)
4. A country of north-central Europe west of Russia, bordering on the Baltic Sea. (Web site)
5. Serfdom, as this latter system was known, had increased steadily in Russia from the time of Ivan the Terrible, its inventor.

Finland

1. On December 6, 1917, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Finland declared its independence.
2. Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809.

Soviet

1. Annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885, Turkmenistan became a Soviet republic in 1925. (Web site)
2. In 1920, by the Peace Treaty of Tartu, Soviet Russia recognized Estonia's independence and renounced in perpetuity all rights to its territory. (Web site)

Red Army

1. On August 31, 1993, Lithuania and Russia signed an agreement whereby the last Red Army troops left the country.
2. The Polish-Soviet War (1919---1921), which ended with the defeat of the Red Army, determined the borders between Soviet Russia and Poland.

Slavic

1. Many immigrants also hail from Slavic countries such as Poland and Russia.
2. When Putin called his bluff about 'Slavic brotherhood' and suggested that Belarus join Russia, Lukashenka almost had an apoplexy.

Estonia

1. About 87% of Estonia's trade was with the Soviet Union, and of that, 61% was with Russia. (Web site)
2. In 1920, by the Peace Treaty of Tartu, Soviet Russia recognized Estonia's independence and renounced in perpetuity all rights to its territory. (Web site)
3. Latvia has land borders with its two fellow Baltic states Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south; and Russia and Belarus to the east.
4. Finland has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia.
5. Many of its political and intellectual leaders were killed or repressed, including Estonia's first president Konstantin P--ts, who was deported to Russia.

Swedish

1. Following the Great Northern War, the Swedish empire lost Estonia to Russia (1710 de facto, and 1721 de jure, by the Treaty of Nystad). (Web site)
2. Over centuries, Finland had sat precariously between the Protestant Swedish empire and Eastern Orthodox Russia.

Ottoman Empire

1. From 1726 to 1761, Russia was allied with Austria against the Ottoman Empire, which France usually supported.
2. The Ottoman Empire no longer posed a serious threat to Russia, however, and had to tolerate an increasing Russian influence over the Balkans. (Web site)

Moscow

1. There are international trains to St. Petersburg (Finnish and Russian day-time trains) and Moscow (Russian over-night train) to Russia.
2. Moscow, Russia hotels., description, photo, rates.

Black Sea

1. Georgia borders on the Black Sea in the west, on Turkey and Armenia in the south, on Azerbaijan in the east, and on Russia in the north. (Web site)
2. By that treaty, Russia acquired an outlet to the Black Sea, and the Crimean Tatars became independent of the Ottomans. (Web site)

Russian Federation

1. In accordance with the Constitution of Russia, the Republic of Karelia is a subject of the Russian Federation.
2. Russia (the Russian Federation) is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Asia and Europe. (Web site)
3. Travel Advice on Russia Russian Federation This advice has been reviewed and reissued.-- The overall level of the advice has not changed. (Web site)

Europe

1. After a period of enlightenment, Russia became an active opponent of liberalizing trends in Central and Western Europe. (Web site)
2. Large number of immigrants originate from Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukrain, Rumania, Bulgaria and elsewhere, although on these there are no available records.

Germans

1. In 1913 Germans traveled in Russia and Englishmen traveled in Germany freely and safely. (Web site)
2. Russia isn't going to forget that she was invaded by France in the 18th century, and again by the Germans during the 20th century. (Web site)
3. Millions of Poles were murdered by both Germans and Soviets (Russia was just one of the republics, Stalin was actually Georgian). (Web site)

Tsar

1. In 1547, Ivan the Terrible was officially crowned the first Tsar of Russia.
2. In 1810, after a brief war,[27] the western Georgian kingdom of Imereti was annexed by Tsar Alexander I of Russia. (Web site)

Oblast

1. Most of it today is part of Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast). (Web site)
2. The Republic of Karelia is a republic of Russia, which was formed in 1991 from the Karelian ASSR. The Karelian Isthmus belongs to the Leningrad Oblast. (Web site)

Former Soviet

1. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. (Web site)
2. First and second generation immigrants from various parts of the former Soviet Union (mainly Russia) comprise most of the remaining 30%.
3. Belarus is the second former Soviet republic after Tajikistan to reinstate the ruble as the official currency and relinquish monetary control to Russia. (Web site)
4. Russia After the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, Mongolia developed relations with the new independent states. (Web site)
5. The vast majority of Ukrainian trade is with countries of the former Soviet Union, and principally with Russia. (Web site)

Poland

1. This is the reason why the late GDL is often called a Slavic country, among Poland, Russia etc.
2. In a series of agreements between 1772 and 1795, Russia, Prussia, and Austria partitioned Poland amongst themselves. (Web site)
3. The Latgale region remained part of Poland as Inflanty until 1772, when it was joined to Russia.
4. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland to the southwest, and Kaliningrad, a territory of Russia, to the west.
5. This uprising finally led to a partition of Ukraine between Poland and Russia.

Nuclear

1. He announces Russia's decision to sell short-range anti-aircraft missiles to Syria and to continue supporting Iran's nuclear industry. (Web site)
2. Russia, as a nuclear power, has a special obligation for that. (Web site)

Baltic

1. The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw a struggle between Poland, Sweden and Russia for supremacy in the eastern Baltic.
2. Russia had tried to expand toward the Baltic sea all since Novgorod had fallen for Moscow in year 1471. (Web site)
3. The Finns ancestors seem to have dominated half of northern Russia before arriving on the north of the Baltic coast well before the Christian era.

Collapse

1. After the collapse of communism, Russia's impoverished government drastically cut spending on its aircraft industry.
2. Latvia was devastated in World War I, but the collapse of Russia and Germany made Latvian independence possible in 1918. (Web site)

Energy

1. Moldova must import almost all of its energy supplies from Russia. (Web site)
2. This is because they need the technology of America and they need the energy resources of Russia. (Web site)

Crimea

1. In addition to western Kazakhstan, the Khazar kingdom also included territory in what is now eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, southern Russia, and Crimea.
2. Also Crimea was never Russian it too was conquered first by the Tartars, Turks then by Russia. (Web site)

Belarus

1. For instance, geographers from Russia and other post-Soviet states generally include the Urals in Europe while including Caucasia in Asia.
2. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. (Web site)
3. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. (Web site)
4. In addition to western Kazakhstan, the Khazar kingdom also included territory in what is now eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, southern Russia, and Crimea.
5. Coniferous forests prevail as one moves north within Russia and Scandinavia, giving way to tundra as the Arctic is approached.

Declared Independence

1. On December 6, 1917, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Finland declared its independence, which was approved by Bolshevist Russia.
2. The region was acquired by Russia in 1895 and was a constituent republic of the USSR from 1929 to 1991, when it declared its independence. (Web site)

Revolution

1. On December 6, 1917, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Finland declared its independence.
2. Writing in the socialist press during the Russo-Japanese War , Parvus predicted that Russia would lose the war, resulting in unrest and revolution.

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