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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.
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Vladimir Putin, (born Oct. 7, 1952, Leningrad, U.S.S.R.),...
- KGB
The Cheka played a prominent role in the Russian Civil War...
- Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev. Born: September 14, 1965,...
- Third Presidential Term
Vladimir Putin - Russian Politics, Diplomacy, Economy:...
- Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Yanukovych (born July 9, 1950, Yenakiyeve, Ukraine,...
- Volodymyr Zelensky
Zelensky was born to Jewish parents in the industrial...
- Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin (born February 1, 1931, Sverdlovsk [now...
- Alexander II
Alexander II (born April 29 [April 17, Old Style], 1818,...
- Saddam Hussein
He joined the Baʿath Party in 1957. In 1959 he participated...
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19 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.
