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5 days ago · The leaders by mention include Boris Yeltsin, Maria Pevchikh, Vladimir Putin, and Alexey Navalny, mentioned in 7.7 per cent to 9.5 per cent of comments. Pevchikh and Navalny have the highest engagement rates, around 15 likes per mention.
3 days ago · - Most of the play concerns the 90s, which was this extraordinary time in Moscow in particular and Russia more widely, where the new Russian state was being established under the Boris Yeltsin administration. It was the beginning of a kind of liberal free market in Russia, gang culture with huge crime problems from a nascent mafia.
1 day ago · The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union 's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time. The coup leaders consisted of top military and ...
- 19-22 August 1991(4 days); 32 years ago
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
4 days ago · Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, played a crucial role in transitioning Russia from communist rule to a more democratic system, leaving a lasting impact on the country’s history and politics. Yeltsin’s presidency was marked by significant challenges, including economic instability and political turmoil, but his ...
23 hours ago · Turkmenistan. / 37.967°N 58.333°E / 37.967; 58.333. Turkmenistan [a] is a country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. [15] Ashgabat is the capital and largest city.
2 days ago · The Circassian genocide, [10] [11] or Tsitsekun, [a] [b] was the Russian Empire 's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of 95–97% [c] [d] of the Circassian population, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths [15] [e] during the final stages of the Russo-Circassian War. [16] [17] [18] The peoples planned for extermination were ...
2 days ago · Turkmenistan, landlocked country of Central Asia. It is the second largest state in Central Asia, after Kazakhstan, and is the southernmost of the region’s five republics. Turkmenistan. After Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan is the least densely populated of the Central Asian states.
