Russification and Sovietization—Central Asia
After capturing Kazan in 1552, the Russians, under Czar Ivan IV (1530–1584), took several hundred years to assimilate the Muslim lands of Cen...
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Russian Perspectives
Russian perspectives on science, technology, and ethics come from two sources: those outside and those inside Russia. Because of the historical impact of the Communist Revolution ...
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EASTERN PROMISES Running Time 96 minutes Directed by David CronenbergWritten by Steve KnightStarring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts
David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, from a screenplay by Ste...
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Imperialism: Russia's tinhorn "conquest" of the North Pole Monday was a little comic, except for what it says about a vainglorious regime seeking to grab more energy resources to use coercively. It...
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Hundreds of ethnic Georgians confronted Russian peacekeeping forces in the breakaway region of South Ossetia on Thursday, throwing paint and gasoline on the troops and forcing them to stop blocking...
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Authorities have detained a journalist from a widely respected newspaper on suspicion of extorting money from a government official, the newspaper said Thursday.The daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta said i...
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Security agents are investigating a Russian scientist for allegedly trying to smuggle out of Russia materials that could be used in building a biological or bacteriological weapon, the scientist an...
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Fatima Tlisova had been beaten, harassed and, she suspects, poisoned while working as a journalist in Russia. But she finally decided to flee the country the day she sent her 16-year-old son on an ...
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Russia's defense minister has resigned, the country's new prime minister said Tuesday, announcing the departure of his own son-in-law in the beginning of what is expected to be a Cabinet-wide shake...
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Russification and Sovietization—Central Asia
Russian Perspectives
Russian Roulette
