Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, [172] [173] in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, [1] and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; [1] whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 ...
In 2012, academic Alex J. Bellamy wrote that a "conservative estimate puts the total number of civilians deliberately killed by communists after the Second World War between 6.7 million and 15.5 million people, with the true figure probably much higher." [77]
The bombing killed 13 people and injured 47, Eight members from the group The Saviour were convicted for the bombing. 2006 Vladikavkaz Mi-8 crash: September 11, 2006 Near Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania 12 An Mi-8 helicopter carrying 15 high ranking Russian officers was shot down, killing twelve of the helicopter's occupants.
Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports
A leaked assessment from the US Defence Intelligence Agency put the number of Russians killed in action in the first year of the war at 35,000-43,000. Show comments Advertisement
[38] [39] [40] Putin's right-hand man Nikolai Patrushev is believed to have orchestrated the assassination of Prigozhin. [41] Alexander Perepilichny: Russian businessman 2012-11-10 London United Kingdom: 1 (Target) 0 Poisoned with a biological poison shortly before court testimony on Putin's financial network. [2] Alexander Bednov: Russian ...
Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (Russian: "Чистка партийных рядов", chistka partiynykh ryadov, "cleansing of the party ranks") were Soviet political events, especially during the 1920s, [1] in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted by other members and the security organs to get rid of "undesirables". [2]
In August 2022, Putin ordered an increase of 137,000 troops by the start of the new year, which put the military’s staffing at just over 2 million personnel, including 1.15 million troops.