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1 day ago · Vladimir Putin is a Russian leader and former KGB officer who has shaped his nation’s political landscape for decades with a mix of strategic maneuvers, military aggression against Russia’s neighbors, and controversial policies.
3 days ago · Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev. Born: September 14, 1965, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia] (age 58) Title / Office: prime minister (2012-2020), Russia. president (2008-2012), Russia. Political Affiliation: United Russia. Role In: Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Recent News. May 31, 2024, 10:02 AM ET (AP)
20 hours ago · Serfdom endured well into the modern era; the years of Soviet communist rule (1917–91), especially the long dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, saw subjugation of a different and more exacting sort. The Russian republic was established immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became a union republic in 1922.
2 days ago · Upon the Soviet Union's collapse, the new Russian government was forced to manage the huge state enterprise sector inherited from the Soviet economy.Privatization was carried out by the State Committee for State Property Management of the Russian Federation under Anatoly Chubais with the primary goal being to transform the formerly state-owned enterprises into profit-seeking businesses, which ...
1 day ago · Mikhail Gorbachev. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
5 days ago · MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Heroes of the Russian Federation in the Yekaterininsky Hall of the Kremlin. Titles of Hero of Russia were awarded to Defense ...
2 days ago · RU. Internet TLD. .ru. .рф. Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] 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. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
