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The Ushkuiniks were medieval Russian Novgorodian river pirates from the tenth to fourteenth centuries, a Slavic version of the Vikings, through fighting, killing, and robbery. In the sixteenth-century reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible , the legendary explorer and soldier Yermak Timofeyevich , was a Russian Cossack river pirate along the Volga or ...
Russia: A leader of a gang of river pirates, along the Don River region, of Russia and later, led an expedition, in the Russian conquest of Siberia, in the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Kristoffer Trondson: c. 1500–1565: c. 1535–1542: Norway: A Norwegian nobleman-turned pirate and privateer. Operated in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea ...
When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed those Russians known as “oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers. The ...
The sanctioning of so-called oligarchs — wealthy Russians with strong political connections — comes as the U.S. and the West attempt to impose "maximum pain" on Russia to penalize it for its ...
In early May 2010, Russian special forces retook a Russian oil tanker that had been hijacked by 11 pirates. One died in the assault, and a week later Russian military officials reported that the remainder were freed due to weaknesses in international law but died before reaching the Somali coast.
But the 48-year-old entrepreneur, a long-time critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said he has just unexpectedly had one of his Swiss bank accounts frozen. Sanctioned or not, Russians ...
Novgorodian ushkuyniks capturing Kostroma, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century). The ushkuyniks (Russian: ушкуйники, romanized: ushkuyniki, sg. ушкуйник, ushkuynik), also spelled ushkuiniks, were medieval Novgorodian pirates who operated in the north of European Russia as well as along the Volga River until the 15th century.