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e. "Scarlet Sails" celebration in Saint Petersburg. Russian culture (Russian: Культура России, romanized: Kul'tura Rossii, IPA: [kʊlʲˈturə rɐˈsʲiɪ]) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical location and its vast expanse, religious and social traditions, and both Eastern [1] and Western influence. [2]
The Russian economy risked going into recession from early 2014, mainly due to falling oil prices, sanctions, and the subsequent capital flight. [134] While in 2014 GDP growth remained positive at 0.6%, [135] in 2015 the Russian economy shrunk by 3.7% and was expected to shrink further in 2016. [136]
t. e. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin [c] [d] (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia. Putin has held continuous positions as president or prime minister since 1999: [e] as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanized country consisting of 16 population centers with over million ...
The February Revolution ( Russian: Февральская революция ), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution [note 1] and sometimes as the March Revolution, [a] was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd ...
The Russian Republic, [f] referred to as the Russian Democratic Federal Republic [g] in the 1918 Constitution, was a short-lived state which controlled, de jure, the territory of the former Russian Empire after its proclamation by the Russian Provisional Government on 1 September (14 September, N.S.) 1917 in a decree signed by Alexander ...
Jan 24, 2024 · Kozlovskiy is not on the Kremlin’s list of foreign agents. The day Kozlovskiy resigned, members of Wikimedia Russia held an emergency meeting where they agreed to shut down, concluding it was ...
