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The term Troika has been widely used in Greece, Cyprus (Greek: τρόικα), [1] [2] Ireland, [3] Portugal, [4] and Spain [5] to refer to the consortium of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund that provided a bailout to these states since 2010, and the financial measures and government policies that the three institutions have demanded to be ...
Troika, a 1991 video game; Troika! (role-playing game), a 2019 tabletop role-playing game The fictional city in the Troika! RPG; Troika , a painting by Vasily Perov; Troika, a 2010 Israeli-Russian short TV series by Leonid Prudovsky; Troyka, a British jazz band featuring pianist Kit Downes; Troika, a German drama film
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
NKVD troika or Special troika (Russian: особая тройка, romanized: osobaya troyka), in Soviet history, were the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD which would later be the beginning of the KGB) made up of three officials who issued sentences to people after simplified, speedy investigations and without a public trial. [1]
Can mean either the road structure or a ship's command center, also the supporting framework that existed below the bird-like monoplane wings of the earlier examples of the Etrich Taube before World War I. Brückenleger – bridgelayer. Brummbär – "grumbling bear"; a children's word for "bear" in German. It was the nickname for a heavy ...
"Erika" is both a common German female name and the German word for heather.The lyrics and melody of the song were written by Herms Niel, a German composer of marches.The exact year of the song's origin is not known; often the date is given as "about 1930", [6] but this has never been substantiated.
The troika was a part of both urban and rural culture. The horses usually driven in a troika were generally plain and rather small; for example the Vyatka horse was not taller than 14.1 hands (57 inches, 145 cm). However, the wealthy preferred to use the elegant Orlov Trotter. The first troika competitions were held in the Moscow hippodrome in ...