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10 April – Alexey Ekimyan, Armenian-Russian composer; 20 April – Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, Olympic wrestler; 15 May – Leila Mardanshina, oil and gas operator (died 2017) 16 May – Boris Tokarev, Olympic athlete; 28 May – Aleksandr Moiseyev, Olympic basketball player; 3 June – Evgeny Chuprun, painter
This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Russia.
The frontiers between Poland, which had established an unstable independent government following World War I, and the former Tsarist empire, were rendered chaotic by the repercussions of the Russian revolutions, the civil war and the winding down of World War I. Poland's Józef Piłsudski envisioned a new federation (Międzymorze), forming a ...
Russia’s Road From Peace to War: Soviet Foreign Relations 1917–1941. (1969). Online free to borrow; Haslam, Jonathan. The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe 1933–1939 (1984). Kennan, George F. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (1961). Online free to borrow; Laqueur, Walter.
A video of the event posted on social media showed the politician being confronted by the wife of a Russian soldier who said that mobilized men had been poorly equipped for the front line.
On a freezing cold November morning, Russian officials turned up at the institution where Maksym lived and told everyone there they were going on a “trip to the seaside”. President Vladimir ...
Under the 1992 Lisbon Protocol, Russia also agreed to receive all nuclear weapons remaining in the territory of other former Soviet republics. Since then, the Russian Federation has assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations, and is widely viewed as the USSR's successor state. [110]
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