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Skoptsy is a plural of skopets, at the time the Russian term for "castrate" (in contemporary Russian, the term has become restricted to referring to the sect, in its generic meaning replaced by the loanwords yévnukh е́внух, i.e. eunuch, and kastrat кастрат). [6]
[3] [better source needed] Russian political scientist in exile Vladimir Pastukhov has described the "Anglo-Saxons" as occupying a "mythical" quality in the mind of Kremlin ideologues. [4] The United Kingdom and United States are especially referred to by the term because they are perceived as "particularly die-hard adversaries of Russia."
The Khlysts or Khlysty (Russian: Хлысты, IPA:, lit. "whips") were an underground Spiritual Christian sect which emerged in Russia in the 17th century. The sect is traditionally said to have been founded in 1645 by Danilo Filippovich, although there is no written evidence to support this claim. The beliefs and practices of its members ...
During the PC boom of the 1990s, Microsoft introduced Clippy as a friendly face to help users hone their word-processing skills. An animated paper clip with round cartoon eyes and expressive ...
A 1917 Russian poster saying "Comrades democrats, Ivan and Uncle Sam". In 1912, future leader of Soviet Russia Vladimir Lenin described the American two-party system (that is, the Republican and Democratic Parties) as "meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties". [3]
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 ...
A Russian gopnik sits in a stairwell in a khrushchyovka building (2016) A gopnik [a] is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics—a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of working-class background who usually lives in suburban areas. [2] [3] The collective noun is gopota (Russian ...
The Russian government decided the amount of other pelts that were equivalent to the sable pelt. Within forty years, almost all Siberian natives were forced into paying fur tribute to the Russians. [9] Russian traders, hunters, and explorers reached the Pacific coastline by 1650 and were collecting fur tribute from most natives along the coast. [9]