Russian can mean: Russians, an ethnic group Russian language an adjective for Russia a slang term for Mammary intercourse Russian - Etymology. "Russian" originally meant "belonging to Rus'"; Rus' originally was a Slavonic word for the Varangians and other Scandinavians who set up a kingdom centered on Kiev; then for the kingdom that they set up; then the name was gradually transferred to the area's native Slavonic population. ...

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The largest ethnic Russian diasporas outside of Russia live in former Soviet states such as Ukraine (about 8 million), Kazakhstan (about 4 million), Belarus (about 1 million), Uzbekistan (about 700,000), Latvia (about 700,000), Kyrgyzstan (about 600,000) and Moldova (about 500 000). There are also small Russian communities in the Balkans, Eastern and Central European nations such as the Czech Republic, as well as in China and Latin America. These communities may identify themselves either as Russians or ci ...

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1917: fourteen 152 mm guns, 4 x 76 mm AA guns, MG's, 3 torpedo launchers The Aurora (Russian: Авро́ра; English transliteration: Avrora) is a Russian protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in St. Petersburg. She became a symbol of the communist revolution in Russia. Other related archives1917, English transliteration, Russia, Russian, St. Petersburg, museum ship, protected cruiser

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Catharsis is a russian power metal band. Catharsis Russian band - Discography. ...

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Aria (Russian: Ария) is a popular Russian heavy metal group that formed in 1985. As a leading band of the genre in Russia, they have been called "Russia's Iron Maiden", in spite of no close similarity in their musical style. Rammstein has covered an Aria song, Shtil. Aria Russian band - Line-up. Arthur Berkut (Артур Беркут) - Vocals Vladimir Holstinin (Владимир Холстинин) - Guitar Sergey Popov (Сергей Попов) - GuitarIncluding:

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The Cadillac Russian Open is currently the only golf tournament on the European Tour schedule which is played east of the former Iron Curtain. It was established in 1996 as a tournament on the second tier Challenge Tour and was added to the European Tour schedule in 2003. It is played near Moscow, the same week in August as the PGA Championship takes place in the United States. Few of the top players on the European Tour are available and it is one of the two least lucrative events on the Tour. The 2005 prize fund of $500,000 is aroun ...

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Orthodox Christianity is a dominant faith among the Russians. More specifically, the vast majority of Russian believers belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, which played an important role in the development of Russian national identity. In other countries Russian faithful usually belong to the local Orthodox congregations which either have a direct connection (like the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, autonomous under the Patriarch of Moscow) or historical origin (like the Orthodox Church in America or a Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russ ...

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Awards (wins): Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Alan Arkin) Writers Guild of America - Best Written American Comedy (William Rose) Awards (nominations): Academy Award for Best Picture Directors Guild of America - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Norman Jewison) Academy Award for Best Actor (Alan Arkin) Academy ...

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Legends abound regarding the invention of Russian roulette. Most of these, predictably, take place in Russia, or occur among Russian soldiers. In one legend, 19th century Russian prisoners were forced to play the game while the prison guards bet on the outcome. In another version, desperate and suicidal officers in the Russian army played the game to impress each other. The earliest known use of the term is from "Russian Roulette", a short story by Georges Surdez in the January 30, 1937, issue of Collier's Magazine. A Ru ...

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The Russian Cup has been played since 1992. The finals have produced the following results: ...

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Russian Symbolism - Beginnings. Primary influences on the movement were irrationalistic and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir Solovyov, with the latter's conceipts of Godmanhood and feminine world soul. Among foreign influences the most important were German philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, French poetes maudits, Sca ...

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Famous modern Baltic Russians include: Patriarch Alexius II of the Russian Orthodox Church, born Aleksey Mikhailovich Ridiger in Tallinn. Mikhail Baryshnikov, famous Russian-American dancer and actor, born in Riga. Ludmilla Chiriaeff, ballet dancer, choreographer, and director, born in Riga. Alexandr Kaleri, Russian cosmonaut born in Jūrmala. Valeri Karpin, football midfielder, born in Narva. Ale ...

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Fyodor Sologub was the first Symbolist to introduce into the Russian prose a morbid, pessimistic outlook characteristic of Fin de siècle. His most famous novel, Petty Devil (1906), is an attempt to work out a polysemantic symbol of Evil, by turns attractive and repulsive, elusive and blatant. Later he wrote several books about an ideal world, wherein a river called Ligoy flows through a land called Oyle under a star called Mair, etc. Another Symbolist writer to comment on the life in provincial Russia was Aleksey Mikhailovich Remizov, who, drawing on the medieval Russian literature, grotes ...

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Russian culture - Icon painting. Russian icon painting was inherited from the art of the Byzantine churches, and it soon became an offshooot version of the mosaic and fresco traditions. Icon paintings in Russia attempt to help people with their prayers without idolizing the figure in the painting. The most comprehensive collection of Icon art is found at the Tretyakov Gallery.[1] Rather than being a mere imitation, Russian icons had a peculiar style and took the icon to new heights by p ...

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Russia gains much of its wit from the great flexibility and richness of the Russian language, allowing for plays on words and unexpected associations. Like with any other nation, its vast scope ranges from lewd jokes and silly wordplay to political satire. Russian culture - Anecdote. Main article: Russian jokes Russian jokes, the most popular form of Russian humour, are short fictional stories or dialogues with a punch line. Russian joke culture features a series of categories wi ...

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Main article: Chastushka. A specific form of humor is chastushkas, songs composed of four-line rhymes, usually of lewd, humoristic, or satiric content. ...

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See History of the Russian language for an account of the successive foreign influences on the Russian language. The total number of words in Russian is difficult to reckon because of the ability to agglutinate and create manifold compounds, diminutives, etc. (see Word Formation under Russian grammar). The number of listed words or entries in some of the major dictionaries published during the last two centuries, and the total vocabulary of Pushkin (who is credited with greatly augmenting and codifying literary Russian), are as follows: Philologists have estimated that the language today m ...

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See History of the Russian language for an account of the successive foreign influences on the Russian language. The total number of words in Russian is difficult to reckon because of the ability to agglutinate and create manifold compounds, diminutives, etc. (see Word Formation under Russian grammar). The number of listed words or entries in some of the major dictionaries published during the last two centuries, and the total vocabulary of Pushkin, are as follows: Philologists have estimated that the language today m ...

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Russian is a Slavic language in the Indo-European family. From the point of view of the spoken language, its closest relatives are Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Belarusan. The basic vocabulary, principles of word-formation, and, to some extent, inflexions and literary style of Russian have been heavily influenced by Church Slavonic, a developed and partly adopted form of the South Slavic Old Church Slavonic language used by the Russian Orthodox Church. Many words in modern literary Russian are closer in form to the modern Bulgarian languag ...

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