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15 hours ago · Republic of Tatarstan. v. t. e. The Khazars [a] ( / ˈxɑːzɑːrz /) were a nomadic Turkic people that, in the late 6th-century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. [10] They created what for its duration was the most powerful polity to ...
15 hours ago · Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic (/ s l ə ˈ v ɒ n ɪ k, s l æ ˈ v ɒ n-/ slə-VON-ik, slav-ON-) is the first Slavic literary language.. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and undertaking the task of translating the Gospels and necessary liturgical books into it as part of the Christianization of the Slavs.
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- Formerly in Slavic areas under the influence of Byzantium (both Catholic and Orthodox)
15 hours ago · As Russian Empire: Unofficial Russia 5–4 Bohemia (Saint Petersburg, Russia; 16 October 1910) Official Finland 2–1 Russia (Stockholm, Sweden; 30 June 1912) As Soviet Union: Soviet Union 3–0 Turkey (Moscow, Soviet Union; 16 November 1924) As Russian Federation: Russia 2–0 Mexico (Moscow, Russia; 16 August 1992) Biggest win; As Russian Empire:
15 hours ago · Their ancestors settled on the Crimean peninsula during the 17th and 18th centuries, but some migrated to Ukraine, southern Russia and the Povolzhie (along the Volga River). Formally, Islam is the religion that these communities align with and the people are recognized for their staunch preservation of the Romani language and identity.
- 5,255–80,000
- 205,007–825,000 (0.6%)
- 105,000 (0.1%)
- 225,000 (0.4%)
15 hours ago · After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014, the head of the Transnistrian parliament asked to join Russia. After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukraine sealed its border with Transnistria, which had been the primary route for goods to enter the region. As such, Transnistria is wholly reliant on ...
15 hours ago · Ukraine says it destroyed the large majority of drones sent by Russian forces in overnight attacks, while one is killed in a Ukrainian assault on a border region. Meanwhile, analysts say Moscow is ...
15 hours ago · Tennis is introduced to Russia. Arthur Davidovich McPherson (1870–1919), a native of Petersburg, was the founder and president of the first All-Russian Union of Lawn Tennis Clubs, the forerunner of today's Russian Tennis Federation. In 1903 he organized the first St. Petersburg tennis championship, and four years later he set up the first ...
