• Russia has been militarily involved in a number of conflicts in neighbouring states, which have included the internationally unrecognised annexations of Crimea in 2014 from neighbouring Ukraine, followed by the further annexation of four other regions in 2022 during an ongoing invasion. (wikipedia.org)
  • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's human rights ombudsman voiced hope Friday that a coalition of countries formed to facilitate the return of Ukrainian children illegally deported by Russia will be able to come up with a faster mechanism to repatriate them. (ap.org)
  • Many observers in Russia and abroad believe that recent events in Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova have rung the death knell for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the fragile association that rose up in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. (rferl.org)
  • Russia has accused the European Union of a 'complete lack of understanding' of Ukraine's domestic politics, as the EU released the names of 15 new targets of sanctions due to their roles in the Ukraine crisis. (voanews.com)
  • They are demanding referendums on whether to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. (voanews.com)
  • Ukraine on Saturday pledged that there would be more attacks on Russian shipping in the Black Sea and another key bridge to Crimea - the structure linking the peninsula to mainland Russia, which Kyiv has also targeted on multiple occasions. (cnn.com)
  • If Russia wants such explosions to stop, he added, "they have the only option to do so - to leave the territorial waters of Ukraine and our land. (cnn.com)
  • Russia has a wide-reaching gas export pipeline network, both via transit routes through Belarus and Ukraine, and via pipelines sending gas directly into Europe. (iea.org)
  • Ukraine said its air defenses intercepted 29 out of 30 cruise missiles launched at cities by Russia overnight. (cnn.com)
  • As today's sanctions announcements demonstrate, the G7 remains unified in the face of the threat from Russia and steadfast in our support for Ukraine," Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said. (cnn.com)
  • This week we talked about how Big Tech is blocking posts that report on the Russia/Ukraine conflict and censoring content that stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people … all while allowing the murderous President of Russia to post freely online. (newsbusters.org)
  • DirecTV absurdly refused to renew One America News Network earlier this year while RT's programming was only suspended after Russia invaded Ukraine. (newsbusters.org)
  • Russian state-affiliated accounts on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are still allowed to influence their approximately 38.7 million followers even as Russia attacks Ukraine. (newsbusters.org)
  • Since Russia launched its full-scale war on Ukraine in February 2022, debates have raged in the West about how to properly respond to Moscow's aggression. (rand.org)
  • This week's panel of the LSE IDEAS' Russia-Ukraine Dialogues will focus on the impact of the war on Russia's security and the options available to Putin. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Among the many questions asked about Russia's disastrous war against Ukraine, one of them is posed only very rarely: can Russia survive what seems increasingly likely to be a humiliating defeat at the hands of its smaller neighbour? (yahoo.com)
  • But there are three good reasons why we should not discount the possibility that defeat in Ukraine might make the Kremlin's edifice crumble, leaving Russia difficult to govern in its entirety, or at least its present form. (yahoo.com)
  • And there are those like Kondrashov, who are deeply worried that their country's recent actions in Ukraine and its weak democracy at home are making Russia an unpleasant place to do science and are driving away scientists, whether they come from Russia or elsewhere. (nature.com)
  • Ukraine requests the ICJ to issue provisional measures to ensure that Russia abides by its international obligations not to finance terrorism in relation to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic, and to fulfill its international legal obligations under the UN Convention against Racial Discrimination with respect to people in the territory of the Crimean peninsula. (lu.se)
  • Also, the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine complicated requests for archive material from Russia. (lu.se)
  • Russia relies heavily on revenues from oil and natural gas, which in 2021 made up 45% of Russia's federal budget. (iea.org)
  • The E.U. and U.S., which is not a major trading partner with Russia, have sanctioned the Russian economy four times in the past 12 months due to Russia's involvement in Ukraine's ongoing political crisis. (forbes.com)
  • Part of the mythos beloved by Russia's far right is that Russia is the " Third Rome ", a necessary great power that unites people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds and prevents them from fighting one another. (yahoo.com)
  • Rus' ultimately disintegrated, with the Grand Duchy of Moscow growing to become the Tsardom of Russia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Russia and the U.S. were supposed to reset relations under the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama, but instead Washington and Moscow have moved further apart with many calling the strained relations a new Cold War. (forbes.com)
  • President Donald Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on the US intelligence community's assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election in his favor, dismissing the investigation into whether or not his campaign colluded with Russia as 'fake news,' a 'hoax' and a 'witch hunt. (cnbc.com)
  • She is a sociologist who has been working as a researcher with the Public Sociology Laboratory of the Centre for Independent Social Research in St. Petersburg, Russia. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Russia is to expel 60 US diplomats and has ordered the closure of the US consulate in St. Petersburg, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday, in retaliation for a similar move by Washington. (10news.com)
  • Day in-Patient Clinic, St. Petersburg Psychiatric Hospital No 1 named after P.P. Kaschenko, St. Petersburg, Russia. (bvsalud.org)
  • Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win. (ap.org)
  • Significant dates in Vladimir Putin's 24 years in power in Russia: Dec. 31, 1999 - In a surprise address to the nation, President Boris Yeltsin announces his resignation and makes Putin, the prime minister he appointed four months earlier, the acting president. (ap.org)
  • Lawmakers in Russia set the country's 2024 presidential election for March 17, moving Vladimir Putin a step closer to a fifth term in office. (ap.org)
  • LONDON (AP) - Opposition activists in Russia came up with a way to get around Kremlin censorship while urging citizens to vote against President Vladimir Putin in an election next year: billboards disguised as a New Year's greeting. (ap.org)
  • If one accepts the formulation that a threat must be assessed based on an adversary's intentions and capabilities, then the limits of what Putin can do establish which of his ambitions are relevant for understanding the threat posed by Russia-and which merely reflect the powers of his imagination. (rand.org)
  • Second, the distribution of political power in Russia means there are no viable alternative answers beyond Putin. (yahoo.com)
  • Putin was preparing for the 'worst performance' when Russia last year took the Crimea and the West began to punish Russia with sanctions. (berkeley.edu)
  • Russia has firmly denied responsibility and President Vladimir Putin has dismissed it as "delirium. (10news.com)
  • After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin , Trump told Reuters in an interview that he asked Putin whether or not Russia meddled in the US election. (cnbc.com)
  • Trump mentions that he doesn't know Putin and that 'haters are going crazy' in reference to Russia. (cnbc.com)
  • In the aftermath of the 2014 annexation of Crimea, then-Prime Minister Abe Shinzō chose not to put Crimea on the agenda, prioritizing instead relations with Russia. (lu.se)
  • Luzhkov is one of the founders of the pro-Kremlin Unified Russia party. (rferl.org)
  • The pro-Kremlin Unified Russia party, which controls more than 300 votes in the lower chamber, declined to support the bill, arguing that it could destroy 'the fragile balance of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. (rferl.org)
  • And although it is clear that Russia needs China more than China needs Russia, the Kremlin will likely do all it can in the years ahead to work with the Chinese and bring in more capital to the Russian market as some Western firms stand down as a result of geopolitics. (forbes.com)
  • E-mail address: [email protected] several months Russia will enter a new decade of the new century. (rt.com)
  • By the early 18th century, Russia had vastly expanded through military conquest, peaceful assimilation, and the efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. (wikipedia.org)
  • Feminism in Russia originated in the 18th century, influenced by the Age of Enlightenment in Western Europe and mostly confined to the aristocracy . (wikipedia.org)
  • The loosening of restrictions on women's education and personal freedom that were enacted by Peter the Great in the 18th century created a new class of educated women, such as Princess Natalia Sheremeteva , whose 1767 Notes was the first autobiography by a woman in Russia. (wikipedia.org)
  • He said only one Chinese bank in Russia today meets the country's capital ratio requirements that set the threshold at five billion rubles ($86 million). (forbes.com)
  • The head of the country's arms export corporation in October denied that Russia had also signed an agreement to supply Syria with its latest range of MiG-31 fighter jets. (ynetnews.com)
  • Russia is the world's second-largest arms exporter behind the United States and its sales are crucial to the country's efforts to keep alive a creaking defence industry whose reforms have dragged on for years. (ynetnews.com)
  • Sanctions have complicated the logistics of and payment for medicine imports, while foreign producers in Russia have either reduced or stopped their operations. (medscape.com)
  • Russia is the world's second-largest producer of natural gas, behind the United States, and has the world's largest gas reserves. (iea.org)
  • Russia is the world's largest gas exporter. (iea.org)
  • In 2021, Russia exported 40 bcm of LNG, making it the world's 4th largest LNG exporter and accounting for approximately 8% of global LNG supply. (iea.org)
  • The world's largest country by land area, Russia ranks sixth in terms of population. (infoplease.com)
  • 3 Voters are choosing between 11 parties, but President Vladimir Putin's Unified Russia party is widely expected to win an overwhelming victory. (rferl.org)
  • Russia has been able to make small gains in the eastern Lysychansk area, taking parts of an oil refinery located on the outskirts of the city, Ukrainian officials said. (cnn.com)
  • A Russia-backed official said Kyiv used advanced Storm Shadow missiles supplied by the United Kingdom. (cnn.com)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology [topic on] Russia is also a neighbour to Finland, Estonia, Norway and Sweden. (berkeley.edu)
  • From 3-5 September, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met at the ninth BRICS summit. (civicus.org)
  • Imports have been received from countries more friendly to Russia, such as India and China, but substantial shortages persist. (medscape.com)
  • Following DirectTV's pledge and execution on dropping the state-funded "news" station earlier this week, Russia Today (RT) told staff that they would experience a "permanent" "layoff" as the network "ceasing production" in a couple of months. (newsbusters.org)
  • On Tuesday morning, the news broke: DirectTV was FINALLY dropping Russian propaganda outfit RT (formerly known as Russia Today). (newsbusters.org)
  • The revelation infuriated both Israel and the United States and there had been speculation that Russia would decide to tear up the contract amid the current turmoil plaguing north Africa and the Middle East. (ynetnews.com)
  • He said: "I have four rules for how you prosper as an enterprise director in today's Russia. (brookings.edu)
  • Boris Yeltsin became president in 1991 and has been credited with helping bring an end to communist rule in Russia. (voanews.com)
  • Religious and spiritual pluralism," said Orthodox priest Father Artyom in 1991, is "the most dangerous thing for Russia. (christianitytoday.com)
  • In a tweet hours after the indictments were issued, Trump acknowledged that Russia did indeed wage a years-long operation against the United States. (cnbc.com)
  • Trump said at a press conference on the Russia investigation: 'For 11 months, they've had this phony cloud over this administration, over this government and it has hurt our government, it does hurt our government. (cnbc.com)
  • When I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story,' Trump told Holt. (cnbc.com)
  • Trump tweeted, questioning why the White House would wait so long if Russia or any other entities were hacking U.S. organizations. (cnbc.com)
  • Under the 2001 law, regions wishing to join the federation do not have to share borders with Russia, but the consent of their present central governments is required for incorporation. (rferl.org)
  • Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). (wikipedia.org)
  • You are correct on the population Of Russia. (berkeley.edu)
  • The first VHL gene mutation related to familial erythrocytosis was identified in the Chuvash population of Russia. (medlineplus.gov)
  • But those debates are limited by a lack of agreement about the goals of that aggression and, ultimately, what kind of threat Russia really represents. (rand.org)
  • Arguably, understanding the Russia threat is a first-order priority: unless Western governments get that right, they risk either overreacting or underreacting. (rand.org)
  • Russia vowed Saturday to fulfil its contract to supply Syria with cruise missiles despite the turmoil shaking the Arab world and Israel's furious condemnation of the deal. (ynetnews.com)
  • Russia initially agreed to send a large shipment of anti-ship Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria in 2007 under the terms of a controversial deal that was only disclosed by Serdyukov in September 2010. (ynetnews.com)
  • But Interfax cited one unnamed military source as saying that Russia had already sent Syria two Bastion coastal defence systems that can include up to 36 Yakhont missiles each. (ynetnews.com)
  • The systematic study of the history of dress in Russia began in 1832 with the publication of a book by the president of the Academy of Arts, Aleksei Nikolaevich Olenin (1763-1843). (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Ukrainians are able to carefully select targets that will undermine the effort by Russia in a more systematic way certainly than they would be able to do with the shorter range artillery systems," the official said, speaking to a group of reporters Friday. (cnn.com)
  • Belkovskii dubbed this alliance the USSR, an acronym from the Russian words for 'Commonwealth of Countries Allied to Russia. (rferl.org)
  • We condemn the exploitation of prisoners of war and civilians for political purposes and have raised this with Russia," a spokesperson for the British Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office told CNN late Friday. (cnn.com)
  • However, the new law certainly means that if Russia does develop a form of democracy, there will probably be severe setbacks along the way. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Natalia Savelyeva is a Resident Fellow at the Future Russia Initiative with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). (lse.ac.uk)
  • And though Russia seemed eager to embrace Western, democratic values following communism's collapse, less than a decade later nationalism and anti-Westernism are seething. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Alarming as immediate restrictions on foreign and national Christians are, most saddening is the great setback for human and religious rights-and the possibility that Russia, with its lack of democratic, pluralistic tradition, will again turn in the totalitarian directions that have brought so much suffering in the past. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Russia (Russian: Россия, romanized: Rossiya, [rɐˈsʲijə]), or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • China is the largest importer of Russian crude (1.6 million bpd) , but Russia exports a significant volume to buyers in Europe (2.4 million bpd). (iea.org)
  • Still, there is a drug shortage in Russia, one that is much more severe than the one experienced in Europe in recent weeks. (medscape.com)
  • In 2021 Russia exported an estimated 4.7 million bpd of crude, to countries around the world. (iea.org)
  • Russia had already been engaged in a tit-for-tat with Britain, with both countries expelling 23 diplomats. (10news.com)
  • Mental health needs of transgender people in Russia remain unmet and stigmatised as in many other countries around the globe. (bvsalud.org)
  • Throughout its troubled, totalitarian history, Russia, which experienced neither the Reformation nor the Renaissance, has struggled to find its unique sense of self. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The first human settlement on Russia dates back to the Oldowan period in the early Lower Paleolithic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Russia has been trying to move closer to China over the past year as the country continues to be shunned by its traditional trading partner, the European Union. (forbes.com)
  • In the wake of this geopolitical fist-fight, Russia seems to have discovered China. (forbes.com)
  • And this weekend, Russia said it wanted to be part of the new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. (forbes.com)
  • China is much closer economically to the U.S. than Russia. (forbes.com)
  • The official also said Russia was well aware that it hit a shopping mall earlier this week in the town of Kremenchuk, rejecting Moscow's claims that it does not strike civilian targets. (cnn.com)
  • The army is, much like everything else in Russia, corrupt to the core and ensuring that the mid to upper levels of the army are rife with people wholly incompetent to do their job. (berkeley.edu)
  • Volodarsk (Russian: Волода́рск) is a town and the administrative center of Volodarsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Seyma River (Oka's tributary) 50 kilometers (31 mi) west of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. (wikipedia.org)
  • Grandiosity and pomp, a magnificent manner of walking, become the accepted ideal of beauty in Russia up until the period of the reforms of Peter the Great at the beginning of the eighteenth century. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Russia possesses the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and has the third-highest military expenditure. (wikipedia.org)
  • The latest reflection of this new mindset in Russia was a proposed bill in the Duma that would have regulated the procedures for expanding the Russian Federation. (rferl.org)
  • But when Andrei Starinets, an expatriate theoretical physicist now at the University of Oxford, UK, used the former dictator's image to reinforce a call for Russia to lead the way in science - and to ask his fellow émigrés to stand united in "turbulent political times" - tempers exploded. (nature.com)
  • Ukraine's military said the strikes "hit two key routes of communication" for Russia. (cnn.com)
  • With God in Russia" by Walter J. Ciszek is an autobiographical account of the author's fifteen years of incarceration as a Catholic Jesuit priest and political prisoner in the prisons and work camps of the Soviet Union during and after World War II. (bookrags.com)
  • Russia natural gas accounted for 45% of imports and almost 40% of European Union gas demand in 2021. (iea.org)
  • At a July meeting to defend religious freedom, organized by Christians of all denominations in Russia, Pentecostal Pastor Sergei Rhykovsky stated, "The most wonderful outcome of this law … is that for the first time, all of us Christians of different persuasions have met together. (christianitytoday.com)
  • 2 Over 100 million people are eligible to vote, some of them outside Russia. (rferl.org)
  • Praising the parliament for the new law, Patriarch Aleksi II said, "I am sure that the sects and pseudomissionaries who have flooded Russia are motivated by the desire not to enlighten but to divide our people along religious, confessional lines. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Don't speak to people from Russia. (cnbc.com)
  • Mental health, minority stress and discrimination against transgender people: a cross-sectional survey in Russia. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of this study was to assess the stressors and perceived need for mental health care among transgender people in Russia . (bvsalud.org)
  • The article also discusses the challenges of providing psychiatric care to transgender people in Russia . (bvsalud.org)
  • The British government blames Russia for using a military-grade nerve agent for the poisoning, in the English city of Salisbury on March 4. (10news.com)
  • The Urals form the conventional geographic boundary between the European and Siberian parts of Russia. (infoplease.com)