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4 days ago · Oleg Artemyev received the honorary title of ‘Hero of the Russian Federation’ in February 2016 and he did not have to wait long for his second flight assignment – upgrading to the commander’s position for Soyuz MS-08 and another half-year Expedition to the International Space Station in 2018.
2 days ago · 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.
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1 day ago · The modern history of Russia began with the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1988–1991, proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990, and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later. The Russian SFSR (Soviet ...
2 days ago · Putinism (Russian: путинизм, romanized: putinizm) is the social, political, and economic system of Russia formed during the political leadership of Vladimir Putin.
4 days ago · Dr Peter Waldron, review of Russia’s First World War. A Social and Economic History, (review no. 491) The First World War is Russia’s ‘forgotten war’. After the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the memory of the war was subsumed into the history of the revolutionary process. The war was a difficult subject for the new rulers ...
4 days ago · Russia: People and Empire 1552-1917. London, HarperCollins, 1997, ISBN: 9780002555364; 576pp.; Price: £20.00. Admiral Eduard Baltin, wrestling in mid-1997 with the consequences of the division of the ex-Soviet navy between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, took a moment to reflect on the creator of the imperial Russian Black Sea fleet: "a ...
4 days ago · Who is being sanctioned? EU restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine apply to a total of 1 706 individuals and 419 entities . The list of sanctioned individuals includes: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
