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The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI, Rusi) is a defence and security think tank with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley .
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.It is the largest country in the world by land area, and extends across eleven time zones; sharing land borders with fourteen countries.
The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...
Rusi or RUSI may refer to: Places in Romania. Ruși River, Romania; Ruși, a district in the town of Zlatna, Alba County; Ruși, a village in Bretea Român ...
Note: The þ (thorn letter) represents the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ of th in English thing, whereas the ð represents the voiced dental fricative /ð/ of th in English the.
The RUSI Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering international security and defence strategy. It was established in 1857 as the Royal United Services Institution Journal, obtaining its current title in 1972. The journal is published by Routledge on behalf of the Royal United Services Institute.
The eight federal districts of Russia. The federal districts are groupings of the federal subjects of Russia. Federal districts are not mentioned in the nation's constitution, do not have competences of their own, and do not manage regional affairs.
The United States of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia Serikat, Dutch: Verenigde Staten van Indonesië lit. ' Republic of the United States of Indonesia '; [a] abbreviated as RIS or RUSI, also known as Federal Republic of Indonesia) was a short-lived federal state to which the Netherlands formally transferred sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies (except Netherlands New Guinea) on 27 ...