In all nearly 10 percent of Russian territory can be classified as swampland. Much of this is concentrated in the West Siberian Plain, which lies between the Ural Mountains and the Yenisey River. This plain is a vast area of lowlands, probably the largest expanse of flat land anywhere in th...
There are no prizes for guessing that Russia’s westernmost point is in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad. But you might be surprised to know that this Russian territory stretches further west than Warsaw or Athens. The seaport of Baltiysk, formerly the Prussian town of Pillau, was taken from...
This made him and his family "Finnish citizens", which also meant that afterwards, when out of office, they did not need passports to go to the territory of the grand duchy from the Russian side of the border, a coveted privilege. Nationality: Russia Aslan Tkhakushinov Age: 77 Aslan(...
In another major work, "Politics as a Vocation", Weber defined the state as an entity that successfully claims a "monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory". He was also the first to categorise social authority into distinct forms, which he labelled as...
Buttercup at Kizhi Island Sunset on Lake Ladoga For thousands of years, Valaam Monastery has been the most important destination for religious pilgrims as well as one of the most elegant and beautiful monasteries in the northern Russian territ...
A double-sided map covering from Lake Baikal to the east coast of Russia including Sakhalin and the Maritime Territory. The map splits the region into an east and west sheet with a generous overlap of coverage. This map does not cover the northern part of Russia, rather it covers the ...
Rudoy AN, Vershinin DA, Sobyanin IA (2012) The upper Aktru valley as a territory of modern ecological risks: the extreme rockfalls and rock mudslides in July 2012. In: Chernomorets SS (ed) Debris flows: disasters, risk, forecast, protection. Proceedings of the second conference dedicated to...
However, our findings showed a lack of AIV in wild goose populations on Rus- sian territory. Possibly, these results could be explained by the resistance of wild geese to the pathogen or elimination of sick birds in wintering areas. The AIV evolution in host populations is aimed at optimal ...
President Putin updated the country's doctrine to expand scenarios that warrant the use of atomic weapons in the same morning that Ukraine fired at Russian territory with US-supplied missiles for the first time since the start of the war. The developments added to pressure on the ruble amid ...
"This is already the fifth batch of Latin American cocaine seized by security agencies this year on Russian territory, intended for further transit to EU countries," the FSB said. The Cali cartel controlled up to 80 percent of the cocaine trade to the United States at its peak in the mid...