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5 days ago · Politics of Russia. The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation ( Russian: субъекты Российской Федерации, romanized : subyekty Rossiyskoy Federatsii) or simply as the subjects of the federation ( Russian: субъекты федерации, romanized : subyekty ...
2 days ago · Given these topological factors, Russia may be subdivided into six main relief regions: the Kola-Karelian region, the Russian Plain, the Ural Mountains, the West Siberian Plain, the Central Siberian Plateau, and the mountains of the south and east.
2 days ago · Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) Russian: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik or Sovetsky Soyuz. (Show more) Major Events: World War II. Russian Provisional Government. collapse of the Soviet Union. Operation Barbarossa. Russo-Polish War. (Show more) Key People: Vladimir Lenin. Joseph Stalin. Isaac Babel. Nikita Khrushchev.
1 day ago · United Russia is the dominant political party in Russia, and has been described as "big tent" and the "party of power". [262] [263] Under the administrations of Vladimir Putin , Russia has experienced democratic backsliding , [264] [265] and has become an authoritarian state [12] under a dictatorship , [9] [266] with Putin's policies being ...
1 day ago · Peter reorganized his government based on the latest political models of the time, molding Russia into an absolutist state. He replaced the old Boyar Duma (council of nobles) with a nine-member Senate, in effect a supreme council of state. The countryside was divided into new provinces and districts. Peter told the Senate that its mission was ...
3 days ago · August 18, 1991 - December 31, 1991. Location: Russia. Soviet Union. Participants: Armenia. Belarus. Estonia. Georgia. Kazakhstan. Latvia. Lithuania. Moldova. Russia. Ukraine. (Show more) Context: Cold War. 1991 Soviet coup attempt. Key People: Mikhail Gorbachev. Eduard Shevardnadze. Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yakovlev. Boris Yeltsin. Oleg Baklanov.
2 days ago · The treaty changed the Russian-Swedish border set by the Treaty of Stolbovo of 1617. Sweden recognized the transfer of Livonia, Estonia, Ingria, part of Karelia and other territories to Russia. In ...
