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  2. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

  3. Culture of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russian belongs to the Indo-European language family and is one of the living members of the East Slavic languages; the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn). Written examples of Old East Slavic (Old Russian) are attested from the 10th century onwards. [22] Over a quarter of the world's scientific literature is published in ...

  4. Russian Customs - Wikipedia

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  5. Customs - Wikipedia

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    A customs officer in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol checks the luggage of an incoming traveler. Vienna Convention road sign for customs. Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.

  6. Customs Code of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Customs Code is the law that regulates customs for Russia. The new Customs Code of the Russian Federation was adopted on May 14, 2003, to substitute the one dated back to 1993. The need to adopt a new Code arose from the problem of the development of Russian economy and foreign trade.

  7. Russian nobility - Wikipedia

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    The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a total population of 138,200,000. [ 1 ] Up until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian noble estates staffed most of the Russian government and possessed a self-governing body ...

  8. Customs Union of the Eurasian Economic Union - Wikipedia

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    Imported goods into the territory of Russia from the territory of Belarus or Kazakhstan are subject to VAT and excise duties and are levied by the Russian tax authorities. [24] As of 2013, 87.95% of customs import duties come from Russia's budget, 4.7% from Belarus and the remainder from Kazakhstan. [25] [needs update]

  9. Russification - Wikipedia

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    Minsk, Belarus, 2011: old street sign in Belarusian (right) replaced with new one in Russian (left).. Russification (Russian: русификация, romanized: rusifikatsiya), Russianisation or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian culture and the Russian language.