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3 days ago · Russia is reportedly recruiting women from Russian penal colonies to fight in Ukraine, and some of these recruits are reportedly fighting on the frontline. The New York Times (NYT) reported on June 10, citing former inmates, that Russian military recruiters removed a group of several women from a penal colony in St. Petersburg in late May 2024 ...
4 days ago · While in the 1990s some Soviet-era city names commemorating communist leaders were changed (e.g., Leningrad reverting to Saint Petersburg and Kalinin, also named after Mikhail Kalinin, reverting to Tver), Kaliningrad remains named as it was, though the city is sometimes colloquially referred to as König or Kyonig (Russian: Кёниг).
1 day ago · Vladimir Putin (born October 7, 1952, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]) is a Russian intelligence officer and politician who has served as president (1999–2008 and 2012– ) of Russia and as the country’s prime minister (1999 and 2008–12).
- Vladimir Putin is a former Russian intelligence officer and a politician who has served as president of Russia from 1999 to 2008 and from 2012 to t...
- Vladimir Putin served for 15 years as a foreign intelligence officer in the KGB, the foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Sovie...
- When Vladimir Putin was named president in 1999, Russia’s constitution limited the president to two consecutive terms. That’s why, after his second...
- In the two decades of Vladimir Putin’s reign, he has consolidated his rule and projected to the Russian people an image of Russia as a global power...
- In the decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine moved toward closer integration with Europe. When pro-Russian Ukrainian...
Jun 26, 2024 · St. Petersburg - Soviet Union, Russia, History: Civil war reigned in Russia from 1918 to 1920, during which the Bolsheviks successfully defended their government against various Russian and foreign elements. In March 1918 the capital of the young Soviet state had been moved back to Moscow.
Jun 26, 2024 · St. Petersburg, city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. It is a major historical and cultural center, as well as Russia’s second largest city. For two centuries (1712–1918) it was the capital of the Russian Empire.
Jun 22, 2024 · The master plan for the development of Leningrad in five versions (projects from 1935 to 1966) and its suburbs became the main fundamental work of the Honored Architect of the RSFSR, Doctor of Architecture, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Construction and Architecture of the USSR Alexander Ivanovich Naumov (1907 ...
Jun 26, 2024 · In formal terms of recognition by the international community, Russia’s territory remains the same as it was when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic (RSFSR)—the biggest of the 15 Union Republics that made up the Soviet Union—became an independent state in its own right, adopting two official state names, Russia, and the Russian Federation.
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