• And since that year, the Kremlin has backed rebels in a war against Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbass region. (yahoo.com)
  • Russia says ruling party wins most votes in Ukrainian regions it occupies. (wtrf.com)
  • Russia's Central Election Commission said Monday that the country's ruling party won the most votes in elections held in occupied Ukrainian regions, as Kyiv and the West denounced the ballots as a sham. (wtrf.com)
  • According to the Central Election Commission, lawmakers from the ruling party, United Russia, came out on top in the four Ukrainian regions Moscow annexed in 2022 - Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia - and on the Crimean Peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014. (wtrf.com)
  • We strongly reject this further futile attempt by Russia to legitimize or normalize its illegal military control and attempted annexation of parts of Ukrainian territories," the European Commission said Monday in a statement, promising "consequences" for Russia's leadership. (wtrf.com)
  • The votes in the Ukrainian regions were timed to coincide with nationwide elections for local legislatures and governors across 16 Russian regions. (wtrf.com)
  • The figure includes Russia and the occupied Ukrainian regions. (wtrf.com)
  • In one of the annexed Ukrainian regions, Russian state media reported turnout was even higher. (wtrf.com)
  • The Kherson region is not under complete Russian control, and local residents and Ukrainian activists have alleged that Russian poll workers make house calls accompanied by armed soldiers in both provinces, detaining those who refuse to vote and pressuring them into writing "explanatory statements" that could be used as grounds for a criminal case. (wtrf.com)
  • On Sunday, Russian electoral officials reported attempts to sabotage voting in the occupied regions, where guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv had previously killed pro-Moscow officials, blown up bridges and helped the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets. (wtrf.com)
  • Russia said on Sunday that air defences had shot down five Ukrainian drones over the western Smolensk region and one over the southern Krasnodar region. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Air defences shot down a Ukrainian drone in the Krasnodar region around 0500 GMT, Russia's defence ministry said. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Referring to the historic Novorossiya, a former imperial Russian territory conquered from the Cossacks and the Ottomans in which Russian settlers were encouraged to settle, Russia promoted this New Russia concept as a new identity for the Ukrainian breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. (wikipedia.org)
  • As part of Ukrainian-Russian conflict, after successful annexation of Crimea Russia subsequently intervened in eastern Ukraine, exploiting unrest therein agitating and lending support for separatism. (wikipedia.org)
  • As part of Russia hybrid warfare in Ukraine on 17 April 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his concept of the historic Novorossiya, giving legitimacy to the nascent separatist movement when he described the Donbas as part of the historic "New Russia" (Novorossiya) region, and issued a statement of bewilderment as how the region had ever become part of Ukraine in 1922 with the foundation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia's formal annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts constituting fifteen percent of Ukraine's territory at the Kremlin September 30th, including over five million inhabitants increasing Russia's advantage in population over Ukraine to five times as many people transforming Ukraine from the second largest country in Europe to the fourth largest country in Europe. (wearethepeople.org)
  • Russian forces are slowly gaining ground in the Donbas region, encircling the city of Bakhmut north of Donetsk and battling to take control of a nearby road which is a major supply route for Ukrainian forces. (indiatimes.com)
  • Russian and Ukrainian forces are engaged in heavy fighting around two towns in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, while Kyiv came under attack from Russian drones early on Monday, officials said. (indiatimes.com)
  • Ukraine also reported clashes with Russian troops on fronts in the east and south, while Moscow said its forces struck Ukrainian army hangars storing U.S.-produced M777 howitzers, a type of artillery, near Kostyantynivka in Donetsk region. (indiatimes.com)
  • Russia does not fully control three of the four regions, while its grip over the fourth, Luhansk, is threatened by the eastward advance of Ukrainian forces. (politico.eu)
  • Ukrainian artillery fire is directed toward Russian forces at a frontline in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 27, 2022. (timesofisrael.com)
  • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces on Thursday launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine's Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that haven't been targeted in weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation to liberate an occupied region in the country's south. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military continued to counterattack in the occupied southern region of Kherson, striking a key bridge over the Dnieper River on Wednesday. (timesofisrael.com)
  • A Ukrainian serviceman checks coordinates on a map before firing toward Russian forces at a frontline in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 27, 2022. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Ukrainian forces drive toward a position to shoot at Russian forces at a frontline in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 27, 2022. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Authorities in occupied parts of the southern Ukrainian oblasts (regions) of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson quickly followed suit, declaring that they too would hold votes on whether to break away from Ukraine and become part of the Russian Federation. (npr.org)
  • Russian missile attacks on residential areas killed at least 21 people early Friday near the Ukrainian port of Odesa, authorities reported, a day after the withdrawal of Moscow's forces from an island in the Black Sea seemed to ease the threat to the city. (indiatimes.com)
  • Russia has officially expanded its territory by taking Ukrainian land. (nhpr.org)
  • Vladimir Putin signed treaties with four occupied Ukrainian provinces, officially annexing them after staged referenda where many people were coerced to vote in favor of joining Russia. (nhpr.org)
  • Early on Sunday, Bryansk Region came under one of the deadliest Ukrainian cross-border strikes since the outbreak of the conflict more than a year ago. (rt.com)
  • The Russian Defense Ministry claimed its troops resisted a "large-scale" attack from Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donetsk region. (cnn.com)
  • US officials believe these pro-Ukrainian agents inside Russia carried out a drone attack that targeted the Kremlin in early May by launching drones from within Russia. (cnn.com)
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the Telegram messaging app that "hundreds of thousands of people" in towns and villages along the flooded Dnipro were struggling to find fresh drinking water. (cbsnews.com)
  • Russia, whose forces had occupied the key piece of infrastructure for months, claimed it was Ukrainian troops that damaged the dam, but Moscow has offered no evidence to back up the claim. (cbsnews.com)
  • By flooding a wide stretch along the southern portion of the river, the border between the two sides has been enlarged by several times, which will complicate any concerted bid by Ukrainian troops to push Russia back in the parts of the Kherson region it still occupies. (cbsnews.com)
  • Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive was underway, a U.S. official told CBS News on Friday, saying Ukrainian brigades trained by U.S. and NATO forces were making good progress as they engaged Russian troops in the Zaporzhzhia region, just north of Kherson. (cbsnews.com)
  • Deputy of Duma: Donetsk, Lugansk referenda to set inspiring example for Ukrainian regions. (derechos.org)
  • The referenda held in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk and Lugansk regions on May 11 will set an inspiring example for other Ukrainian regions where people do not want to put up with the violence that has swept the country, Sergei Zheleznyak, deputy speaker of the State Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament) said on Monday, May 12. (derechos.org)
  • This is the leitmotif and imperative for these two Ukrainian regions. (derechos.org)
  • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia's southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine came under attack Friday from Ukrainian artillery fire, mortar shells and drones, authorities said, hours after two drones struck a Russian city in an area next to the annexed Crimea Peninsula. (fox16.com)
  • Moscow's forces, meanwhile, struck a building containing psychology and veterinary clinics in the city of Dnipro, in central Ukraine, killing two people and wounding 30, including two children, Ukrainian officials said. (fox16.com)
  • The town of Graivoron in Russia's Belgorod region, about 7 kilometers (more than 4 miles) from the Ukrainian border, came under fire for several hours, damaging four houses, a store, a car, a gas pipeline and a power line, Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported. (fox16.com)
  • Russia blamed the Ukrainian armed forces, but two Russian groups said they were involved, with the aim of bringing down Russian President Vladimir Putin. (fox16.com)
  • Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions - collectively known as the Donbass - broke away from Ukrainian government control in 2014 and proclaimed themselves independent "people's republics", until now unrecognised. (straitstimes.com)
  • A Russian parliament member and former Donetsk political leader, Alexander Borodai, told Reuters last month that the separatists would then look to Russia to help them wrest control of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions still under the control of Ukrainian forces. (straitstimes.com)
  • Both separatist regions have abandoned the Ukrainian hryvnia in favour of the Russian rouble as their official currencies. (straitstimes.com)
  • Election commission members prepare to count ballots at a polling station after a local elections in Donetsk, the capital of Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. (wtrf.com)
  • People struggle in the rain and wind as the tropical storm named Khanun approaches to the Korean Peninsular, in Busan, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • Marina Zakharova, the Russia-installed chair of the Kherson election commission, said Sunday that 65.36% of Kherson residents cast ballots in the election. (wtrf.com)
  • A Russian-appointed official in the neighboring Kherson region said a live grenade was discovered Saturday near a polling station there. (wtrf.com)
  • The objectives in developing the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are spelled out in the new 20-page section of the document published on the party's official website. (dan-news.ru)
  • Russian authorities last week started asking people in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia if they wanted to join Russia, in an attempt to formalize the annexation of the four areas. (politico.eu)
  • while 93% voted for it in the Zaporizhzhia region and 87% in the Kherson region. (npr.org)
  • Ukraine accused Russia of blowing up the Nova Kakhovka hydro-power plant and dam "from inside" early Tuesday morning, unleashing a torrent of water from the massive reservoir it held back onto the surrounding Kherson region. (cbsnews.com)
  • The UK foreign office on Saturday said it had information that Russia was planning to 'install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv as it considers whether to invade and occupy Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions months ago, failing to capture either. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The renewed strikes on the areas come a day after the leader of pro-Kremlin separatists in the east, Denis Pushilin, publicly called on the Russian forces to "liberate Russian cities founded by the Russian people - Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lutsk. (timesofisrael.com)
  • OD: It's true that Russia and Moscow attract more attention than Kyiv, Riga, Chișinău, or Dushanbe do. (stmcollege.ca)
  • After war broke out, Kyiv stopped paying public sector wages to people registered as living in separatist-controlled areas. (straitstimes.com)
  • Local authorities in Donetsk said in January 2021 that Russia had begun supplying its Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 to separatist-controlled Donetsk despite a ban by Kyiv. (straitstimes.com)
  • A plane with 28 people on board has gone missing in Russia's Far East region, the country's emergencies ministry has said. (sky.com)
  • A drone strike destroyed one polling station in the Zaporizhzhia region hours before it opened Sunday, Russia's Central Election Commission deputy chair Nikolai Bulaev told reporters. (wtrf.com)
  • At around 0600 GMT, Russia shot down three drones over the Smolensk region and at 0700 GMT shot down two more over the region, Russia's defence ministry said. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Russia has re-energised its assault on the Donetsk Oblast town of Bakhmut as forces of the Russian MoD and Wagner Group have improved co-operation," it said, referring to Russia's defence ministry and its main mercenary force. (indiatimes.com)
  • The fighting indicates Russia's struggle to establish control of those regions and Ukraine's persistence to reclaim them. (indiatimes.com)
  • An explosive device planted on the tracks has caused the derailment of a cargo train in Russia's Bryansk Region, which borders Ukraine, the local governor has said. (rt.com)
  • Officials in Russia's southern city of Krasnodar, in the region of the same name bordering Crimea, said two drones struck there. (fox16.com)
  • A new wind farm being constructed on the shores of Russia's Arkhangelsk region will be one of the largest such wind power plants in Europe and have will generate more energy than all of Russia's current wind farms combined. (evwind.es)
  • In 2021, the Donetsk People's Republic marked Russia Day on June 12, which is a national holiday in Russia to commemorate Russia's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. (straitstimes.com)
  • Drone attacks against Russian border regions have been a regular occurrence since the start of the invasion in February 2022, with attacks increasing last month. (fox16.com)
  • In 2022, there was an uptick in violence and abuse against LGBTI people. (hrw.org)
  • A car with Russia flags attached driving through the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on Feb 21, 2022. (straitstimes.com)
  • Ukraine has cultivated a network of agents inside Russia working to carry out acts of sabotage and has been providing them with drones to stage attacks, multiple sources familiar with US intelligence on the matter told CNN. (cnn.com)
  • Today, Russian missiles and drones hit Odesa and our southern regions again. (president.gov.ua)
  • KHARKIV AND ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, and MOSCOW - Four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine appeared to vote overwhelmingly in favor of joining the Russian Federation, according to Russian state media. (npr.org)
  • Ukraine's presidential office said a series of Russian strikes in the past 24 hours also killed civilians in eastern Ukraine - four in the northeastern Kharkiv region and another four in Donetsk province. (indiatimes.com)
  • A Russian rocket attack on a residential area in Balaklia in the Kharkiv region killed one person and injured several others, a local official said. (cnn.com)
  • The city has become the main target of the Russian offensive in Ukraine's Donbas region - made up of Luhansk and Donetsk provinces -as the Kremlin's invasion of the country grinds on in a war of attrition that has seen whole cities laid waste by Russian artillery bombardments. (indiatimes.com)
  • On Sept. 20, the day before Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a new military draft and a major new push in his war against Ukraine, officials in the Moscow-backed separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk announced they would hold the referendums on joining Russia. (npr.org)
  • In late 2021, Mr Putin ordered the Russian government to lift curbs on exports and imports of goods between Russia and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. (straitstimes.com)
  • Russia on Friday threatened to close its embassy in Bulgaria and shut down the EU country's mission in Moscow as tensions rage over Moscow's offensive in Ukraine and espionage concerns. (indiatimes.com)
  • After making landfall at around 9:20 a.m. near the southeastern port city of Geoje, Khanun on Thursday night was passing the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where half of the country's 51 million people live. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • Violence has been rife in Cameroon's North-West and South-West regions since late 2016, as armed separatist groups seek independence for the country's minority Anglophone regions. (hrw.org)
  • According to experts, the potential of wind energy in Russia today is about 6.2 trillion kWh per year, which is several times greater than the country's total current electricity production. (evwind.es)
  • In Moscow, United Russia received the most votes, returning Sergei Sobyanin as mayor. (wtrf.com)
  • After the Orange Revolution, Dmitri Trenin of the Carnegie Moscow Center wrote that in 2005 and again in 2008 some quarters in Moscow, that were not entirely academic, discussed the idea of a Russia-friendly buffer state, "Novorossiya", being formed out of Southern Ukraine from the Crimea to Odesa in response to perceived Western penetration into the former Soviet Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • While their advance has been much slower than Moscow expected, Russian troops have expanded their control beyond the 43,000 square kilometres (16,600 square miles) taken when Russia seized Crimea and parts of the Donbas in 2014. (indiatimes.com)
  • Voting began Friday in four Moscow-held regions of Ukraine on referendums to become part of Russia. (npr.org)
  • The city stands nearby the border of Russia, on the busy highway Helsinki Petersburg Moscow. (russia-ic.com)
  • If you want to make a quick trip from Moscow into the wilderness, the area around Medveditsa river in Tver region is perhaps the best choice. (waytorussia.net)
  • If you decide to use the public transport, your best bet is to take a train from Lobnya station (1 hour by car from Sheremetyevo airport) or from Savyolovsky station (2.5 hours - €7) to Dubna (a small town in Moscow region) and to then get a taxi directly to Lgovo village (about 2 hours and 2000R / €30) and walk from there (about 5 km). (waytorussia.net)
  • Voronka river is an idyllic spot with typical Russian nature and flood meadows just 2 hours south from Moscow in Tula region. (waytorussia.net)
  • MOSCOW (REUTERS) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Feb 21) signed a decree recognising two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent and ordered the Russian army to launch what Moscow called a peacekeeping operation into the area, accelerating a crisis the West fears could unleash a major war. (straitstimes.com)
  • That could pave the way for Moscow to send military forces into the separatist regions openly, using the argument that it is intervening as an ally to protect them against Ukraine. (straitstimes.com)
  • Magnitogorsk is a city in the Chelyabinsk Region of Russia, one of the largest world centers of ferrous metallurgy. (russia-ic.com)
  • Ozyorsk is a town (from 1954) in Russia, the administrative center of Ozyorsk urban district (from 2005), in Chelyabinsk Region. (russia-ic.com)
  • More than 15,000 people, mostly in southern regions, were evacuated from their homes as emergency workers responded to landslides, flood-damaged homes and rising rivers and streams. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • Since then, Ukraine says about 15,000 people have been killed in fighting. (straitstimes.com)
  • There is more than one explanation for this interest in Russia that goes beyond the geography and curiosity of people who want to know more about the largest country in the world by territory. (stmcollege.ca)
  • The population of the city makes 410.4 thousand people. (russia-ic.com)
  • The population of Vyborg counts around 82 thousand people. (russia-ic.com)
  • The population of Ozyorsk is 82.3 thousand people as of 2010. (russia-ic.com)
  • The number of indigenous peoples of the north living in this district makes up 67 thousand people, or one third of their total number in the Russian Federation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Its territory occupies the third largest place in the RF and it makes up more than 1,4 million km 2 (8.4% of Russia). (bvsalud.org)
  • A startling 24 million people tuned in to Fox in August 2015 for the first Republican primary debate of the 2016 election season. (yahoo.com)
  • A former senior official from Donetsk told Reuters in 2016 that Russia directly finances pensions and public sector salaries in eastern Ukraine's two separatist regions. (straitstimes.com)
  • In 2014, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • Besides, all three countries have break- away regions which are under the de-facto control of Russia, be it Transnistria in Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, or Crimea in Ukraine. (lu.se)
  • Contestants compete during horse racing in Darhan Muminggan United Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, July 22, 2017. (xinhuanet.com)
  • The Russian regions of Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk, all of which border Ukraine, have been the targets of numerous drone and missile attacks by Kiev's forces over the past year. (rt.com)
  • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said that while Ukraine is "very well prepared" for a counteroffensive against Russia, it is "too early to tell what outcomes are going to happen. (cnn.com)
  • The US is weighing sending up to 5,000 troops to Eastern Europe amid fears Russia will invade Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • What is more likely is what I mentioned earlier, is that this conflict would spiral out of control because another country might decide to invade another country due to the precedent that Russia is setting. (wwlp.com)
  • Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas noted that "Ukraine does not have any wish to invade Russia," and Lithuanian Prime Minster Ingrida Simonyte added: "I'm somewhat puzzled by the worry of Russia, because Russia is at war -- so it's quite strange to think that the war can only be in that other territory that you invaded. (fox16.com)
  • Here's a look at the implications for the wider crisis, in which the United States says Russia may be poised to invade Ukraine with a force of up to 190,000 troops it has massed near its neighbour's borders. (straitstimes.com)
  • The Bashkirs are a mostly Turkic people that are nominally Muslims. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The Kumandins are a Turkic, Altaic people, who traditionally make their living by hunting and fishing, working as herders and nomads and living off the land. (joshuaproject.net)
  • The President signed Executive Order On Early Termination of the Mandate of Yaroslavl Region Governor , and by the same Executive Order appointed Sergei Yastrebov acting governor of the region. (kremlin.ru)
  • Dmitry Medvedev and Nikolai Tsukanov discussed issues pertaining to the implementation of visa-free travel between Kaliningrad Region and bordering districts in Poland, and further talks on this topic with Lithuania. (kremlin.ru)
  • Troops would not be deployed to Ukraine but to NATO-allied countries in the region. (yahoo.com)
  • The Biden administration is weighing sending thousands of troops to Eastern Europe, The New York Times first reported , amid concerns that Russia is on the verge of invading Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • Meanwhile, Russia has gathered tens of thousands of troops on the border of Ukraine. (yahoo.com)
  • What is the history in the regions where Russia has moved troops? (wwlp.com)
  • At least 21 people were killed Friday in missile strikes on an apartment building and recreation centre in southern Ukraine's Odessa region, authorities said. (indiatimes.com)
  • Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said Friday in a social media post that four people were confirmed dead and at least 13 more were missing amid the flooding. (cbsnews.com)
  • Unfortunately, given the fact that Russia has employed multiple dual-capable nuclear delivery systems in Ukraine, if Putin launches a nuclear missile or nuclear bomber at Ukraine, we will have no way to ascertain whether it is actually nuclear-armed or not until it is too late. (wearethepeople.org)
  • According to Russian news agencies, Peskov said that Putin will meet with the Russian-backed leaders of the four regions. (politico.eu)
  • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Tropical Storm Khanun poured intense rain on South Korea on Thursday, turning roads into chocolate-colored rivers and leaving at least one person dead, before weakening as it reached major urban centers near the capital. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • Home to 4,404,013 people, it is the 6th largest division in Russia in terms of population. (worldatlas.com)
  • The government of Rostov Oblast is lead by Vasily Golubevand is based in the administrative region capital of Rostov-na-Donu (Population: 1,074,482). (worldatlas.com)
  • Epidemics occur in people only periodically-when the population of mosquitoes or infected animals increases. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Some 2.3 billion people around the world drink alcohol, and alcohol is consumed by more than half of the population in North America, South America, Europe, and the Western Pacific. (medscape.com)
  • The Russian population has very few former smokers (i.e. people who have quit), an indication of underdeveloped tobacco control measures. (who.int)
  • The first VHL gene mutation related to familial erythrocytosis was identified in the Chuvash population of Russia. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The region has a multinational population with representatives of more than 140 nationalities living there, including 26 indigenous peoples of the north. (bvsalud.org)
  • The most popular online travel guide to Russia, since 2001. (waytorussia.net)
  • Way to Russia is the leading travel guide to Russia, established in 2001 and visited by more than 1.5 Mln people every year. (waytorussia.net)
  • Melissa Marx] I should start by acknowledging that some people think of anthrax as a terrorist agent because letters with anthrax were sent to harm and scare people back in 2001. (cdc.gov)
  • Earlier this week, the Belgorod region was the target of one of the most serious cross-border attacks from Ukraine since the war began 15 months ago. (fox16.com)
  • Boko Haram attacks are a persistent threat in the Far North region. (hrw.org)
  • The chaos continued in southern Ukraine Friday as security forces, emergency workers and regular citizens risked life and limb to evacuate people from a vast area flooded by the destruction of a crucial dam in Russian held territory. (cbsnews.com)
  • Russia denies being a party to the conflict but has backed the separatists in numerous ways, including through covert military support, financial aid, supplies of Covid-19 vaccines and the issue of at least 800,000 Russian passports to residents. (straitstimes.com)
  • Officials shut down hundreds of freeways, streets and public parks and sent text alerts warning about the perils posed by Khanun, which is hitting South Korea weeks after torrential rains caused flash floods and landslides that killed at least 47 people. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • Prison officials in Russia say the situation is under control at prison IK-7 in the Saratov region after hundreds of inmates rioted earlier on February 1. (rferl.org)
  • More than 170 people were charged on Nov. 17 following a two-year, large-scale human trafficking investigation by the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) and Florida state and federal officials over the sexual exploitation of a young teenage girl. (theepochtimes.com)
  • The self-styled referendums, with military escorts and with voters held at gunpoint, took place over five days, with Russian-backed authorities claiming that a majority of residents said yes to joining Russia by Tuesday evening. (politico.eu)
  • Deputy Duma Speaker Sergei Neverov said the referenda in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions were a reaction of their people to the Kiev authorities and stressed the need to wait to the final results. (derechos.org)
  • We should clearly understand that if the self-proclaimed authorities in Kiev voted in by the Maidan consider themselves legitimate and entitled to issue criminal orders authorising the use of the army against their own people, such a strong referendum gives rise to the status of state entity and ability to conduct negotiations at any level," he said. (derechos.org)
  • Russian authorities said the move was designed to compensate for the economic blockage between those regions and the rest of Ukraine. (straitstimes.com)
  • Bryansk Region suffered a major terrorist incident in early March when a group of gunmen crossed the border from Ukraine before attacking civilians and planting explosive devices. (rt.com)
  • Against the nastiness, weapons and killings in Donbass there stood the wisdom and the constructive will of the people," she said. (derechos.org)
  • For the first time, Russia is saying it does not regard the Donbass as part of Ukraine. (straitstimes.com)
  • The southern city of Mykolaiv was fired at as well, with one person sustaining injuries. (timesofisrael.com)
  • NewsNation Now ) - The crisis between Russia and Ukraine continues to escalate globally amid fears of a mounting war. (wwlp.com)
  • in 1993, 35% of indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Northern Tyumen region noted that they had mastered the native language, while only 24% did not master the language. (bvsalud.org)
  • indigenous people, education, native language. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is emphasized in the article of the British magazine The Economist that the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the north (ISPN) of Tyumen region have to resist many modern threats when their cultural traditions are not only being destroyed but also washed off by. (bvsalud.org)
  • 1 The processes of assimilation and the loss of original culture of small-numbered ethnic populations all over the world, including the indigenous peoples of Northern Tyumen region. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2 The greatest number of representatives of four indigenous peoples (90% Khanty, 95% Mansi, 65% Nenets, 45% Selkups) is concentrated within the bounds of Tyumen region. (bvsalud.org)
  • A punitive operation and mass killings of peaceful people" are taking place in the South-East of Ukraine under the guise of counter-terrorism operations, he said, adding, "The referendum reflects the position of self-determination and a reply to the Kiev junta. (derechos.org)
  • It has since been found in other geographic regions as well. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Ukraine successfully launched offensives in several directions, including the eastern city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, a senior official said Monday. (cnn.com)
  • MFG: Russian aggression against Ukraine has aroused much interest in academia about the countries of Eastern and Central Europe but the vision of these countries has been conditioned by a greater interest and attention in Russia and not directly in these ex-Soviet countries (a term that we will discuss later). (stmcollege.ca)
  • Secondary cases occurred among genetically related and through migration of affected persons from villages along unrelated persons in a setting of prolonged intrahousehold the Viliui River in Eastern Siberia, where VE has been en- contact with a patient manifesting the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • It is an honour to address such a distinguished audience, and it's a particular honour to do so alongside His Excellency President Khatami whose contribution to the fight against the spread of the HIV epidemic will be remembered as a milestone in the history of the epidemic, both in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also in the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of WHO. (who.int)
  • The countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region are not spared by the HIV epidemic. (who.int)
  • We have agreed a text which says that 'the constitutional process in Ukraine should be comprehensive, transparent and responsible, it should include an immediate commencement of broad national dialogue that would take into account the interests of people in all regions and all ethnic groups, all political and public forces in Ukraine in light of the May 11 referenda in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions'," Mironov said. (derechos.org)
  • Until 1926, Russia listed the Andi as a distinct ethnic group in the census. (joshuaproject.net)
  • Moreover, few days ago, on 16th of May the Russian occupying forces have resumed "borderisation" activities on the territory, near the Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia. (who.int)
  • The New Russia Party, founded on 13 May 2014 in Donetsk, Ukraine, declared on its first congress of 22 May 2014 the formation of a new self-declared state named "Novorossiya"[citation needed], inspired by the historical region of the Russian Empire that carried that name. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Cold War triggered the development of centres in North America to study Russia and the Soviet Union. (stmcollege.ca)
  • One of the outcomes of the Cold War is that North American scholars produced really captivating work about Russia and the Soviet Union. (stmcollege.ca)
  • There are about 1.5 million Bashkirs and they live mostly around the Volga region in Bashkortostan republic. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Tsna River at Tambov city, Russia. (britannica.com)
  • That's enough to cover the energy needs of a city of 100,000 people. (evwind.es)
  • Transmis- demic for at least a century, to densely populated regions sion to unrelated persons was documented in a densely around the city of Yakutsk ( 6 ), located 4° (450 km) be- populated region around the city of Yakutsk in which Viliuisk low the Arctic Circle ( 7 , 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • We conducted a detailed study of 5 families living in vil- lages along the Viliui River and of 1 family in the region surrounding the city of Yakutsk, to which the disease has recently spread (Figure). (cdc.gov)
  • These outbreaks occur globally, including recently documented outbreaks in Italy, Russia, Spain, South Africa, and just a few weeks ago in Namibia. (cdc.gov)
  • From July 25 to October 1, 1999, 826 patients were admitted to Volgograd Region, Russia, hospitals with acute aseptic meningoencephalitis, meningitis, or fever consistent with arboviral infection. (cdc.gov)
  • People who engage in outdoor work and recreational activities in endemic areas are at increased risk of infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Infection occurs when people unknowingly ingest toxoplasma cysts from cat feces or eat contaminated meat. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Infection spreads from arthropod to person, not from person to person. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Latent tuberculosis infection is a condition in which a person is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis -complex but does not have active tuberculosis disease. (medscape.com)
  • People with latent tuberculosis infection are at risk of progressing to active tuberculosis. (medscape.com)
  • There are two main categories of people who should be screened for latent tuberculosis infection: 1) individuals at risk for exposure to persons with active tuberculosis disease, and 2) individuals with conditions or other factors associated with progression from latent tuberculosis infection to tuberculosis disease. (medscape.com)
  • It added that Ukraine has used its new long-range artillery to damage at least three of the bridges across the Dnieper River, "which Russia relies upon to supply the areas under its control. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The junta that has seized power has unleashed a real punitive operation against peaceful people, using not only firearms but also armoured combat vehicles, aviation, artillery and mortars," he said. (derechos.org)
  • Russian artillery attack on the village of Druzhba, Toretsk community, Donetsk region. (president.gov.ua)
  • Whilst the Visegrad Group countries' fears that Russia would regain influence over them never materialized, the recent war in Ukraine is a vivid demonstration that the development, independence, or even the very existence of Associated Trio countries is under threat from Russia. (lu.se)
  • Some 106 people were charged this week with felony counts of human trafficking, lewd and lascivious battery on a child under 16, and production and possession of child pornography. (theepochtimes.com)
  • The Region now counts around 700 000 people living with HIV. (who.int)
  • Today, well over 40 million people are living with HIV, and last year approximately 3.1 million people died of HIV-related diseases-- more than any other infectious disease. (who.int)
  • Tyumen region is one of the biggest regions of the Russian Federation (RF). (bvsalud.org)
  • Will Russia-Ukraine conflict go nuclear? (wwlp.com)
  • He's trying to escalate the conflict, and he's trying to tell the Russian people he's at war with the West, not Ukraine, and that everything he's doing is somehow defensive. (nhpr.org)
  • If that happened, it could lead to open military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. (straitstimes.com)
  • Regrettably, when the entire world is trying to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, and against the call of the UN Secretary General for an immediate global ceasefire in the world's conflict zones, Russia continues to violate norms and principles of the international law and territorial integrity of Georgia. (who.int)
  • Given that Russia further continues the above-mentioned process of the so-called "borderisation" and the so-called "crossing points" with the Russia-occupied regions of Georgia are closed, people living in the conflict-affected areas are left isolated and deprived of the possibility to get elementary medical services, not to mention the need to tackle with the new challenges they face amidst the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. (who.int)
  • Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is the larval cystic stage (called echinococcal cysts) of a small taeniid-type tapeworm ( Echinococcus granulosus ) that may cause illness in intermediate hosts, generally herbivorous animals and people who are infected accidentally. (medscape.com)
  • Russian forces have been trying to take Bakhmut for months and say capturing it would be a step towards its objective of seizing all of the surrounding Donbas region. (indiatimes.com)
  • In more than 40 settlements, life is broken," said the president, who's top diplomat earlier this week accused Russia of blowing up the dam in a " heinous war crime . (cbsnews.com)
  • Sex and labor trafficking victimize almost 25 million people worldwide, according to the U.S. State Department's 2019 "Trafficking in Persons" report ( pdf ). (theepochtimes.com)
  • Bashkirs make up about 20 percent of the 4.1 million people that live in this republic in a green, hilly region at the southern tip of the Ural mountains. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Voting for Russia-installed legislatures began last week. (wtrf.com)
  • And now, by basically saying this is all part of Mother Russia, they're doing two things - one, they're trying to scare the West and Western publics and Western governments that things could get out of hand because now any attack in these parts of Ukraine are somehow tantamount to an attack on Mother Russia. (nhpr.org)
  • NATO allies are sending more ships and fighter jets to the region in response to the crisis. (yahoo.com)
  • Speaking their own distinct Andi language, the Andi live in 13 major villages in their mountain region and in some Andi enclaves in lowland urban regions of Dagestan. (joshuaproject.net)
  • La participation des chefs de groupe spirituels a été recherchée dans 15 villages de la tribu Sorchi, connue pour avoir en permanence des taux de couverture faibles. (who.int)