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4 days ago · Russia - Culture, Traditions, Arts: Russia’s unique and vibrant culture developed, as did the country itself, from a complicated interplay of native Slavic cultural material and borrowings from a wide variety of foreign cultures. In the Kievan period (c. 10th–13th century), the borrowings were primarily from Eastern Orthodox Byzantine culture. During the Muscovite period (c. 14th–17th ...
5 days ago · Russia's military was built for quick, overwhelming firepower, experts say, but its weakness is logistics. And on the roads of Ukraine a month after the first invasion, that weakness is showing. ...
4 days ago · Guernica is dominated by symbols of loss and the afterlife, as well as references to different mythologies and historical events. Guernica’s meaning is enigmatic and difficult to nail down, but one recurring element is its anti-fascist tone. In June of 1937, Picasso painted the renowned Guernica picture. Its title relates to the same-named ...
2 days ago · Russia - Tatar Rule, Mongol Invasion, Golden Horde: After a brief attempt to revive the ancient centres of Bulgar and Crimea, the Jucids (the family of Jöchi, son of Genghis Khan, who inherited the western portion of his empire) established a new capital, Itil. (It was moved to New Sarai, near the site of Tsaritsyn, modern Volgograd, about 1260.) These towns became the commercial and ...
5 days ago · Russia's state news agency says a French citizen arrested in Moscow has pleaded guilty to criminal charges involving illegally collecting information on military issues in the country.
3 days ago · the Kremlin, group of buildings in the center of Moscow that serves as the official seat of the government of Russia. A centuries-old fortress with striking red brick architecture, it is one of the most recognizable government complexes in the world. Though kremlin means “citadel,” and though about 30 such complexes survive across Russia ...
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