The Journal of Slavic Military StudiesBlankS. J., Challenging the New World Order: The Arms Transfer Policies of the Russian Republic (Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College: Carlisle Barracks, 1993), p. 46.Blank, Stephen Challenging the New World Order: The Arms Transfer Policies of...
1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Revolution, the execution...
"Servicemen are shooting from all types of small arms, as well as from mortars; they hone their skills in driving combat vehicles, pass psychological obstacle courses, study tactical medicine and other disciplines." Video clips posted by the ministry showed Russian soldiers in snow gear training ...
"We are asking for one of the heads (of the Russian state emblem, a double-headed eagle) to be topped with a crescent moon and the other to be topped with a Russian Orthodox cross. All the crowns on the coat of arms-two on the heads of eagles and one above the middle-are topped...
Emperor of All Russia abdicated for himself and for his sonTsarevich Alexeiin favor of his brotherGrand Duke Michael Alexandrovich. Michael declined to accept the throne unless the people were allowed to vote for the continuation of the monarchy or for a republic. Of course, that vote never ha...
Source:Konstantin Shavlovsky, “‘It hurts, hurts, hurts to love now’: a long conversation with Elena Kostyuchenko,”Republic, 12 January 2025. Excerpted and translated by theRussian Reader. Protestors at Christopher Street Park pose for a photo. Photo: S. Baum/Erin in the Morning ...
In the year 1832, the Vilnius University was closed. By the year 1865, printed Lithuanian language was banned. A policy of “Restoration of the Russian beginnings” was initiated as the Russian propaganda claimed that before Polonization the Lithuanian lands were, in fact, Russian. ...
but young men and women with books by Bourdieu and Arendt tucked under their arms. One day you read the structuralists, the next day you record a video and post it on YouTube, and the day after that you take to the streets to show you exist and are still capable of acting. Who nee...
evitch, passed my window, carrying the sick boy in his arms; behind him came the Grand-Duchesses, loaded with valises and small personal belongings4. I tried to get out, but was roughly pushed back into the carriage by the sentry5. I came back to the window. Tatiana Nicola?evna came ...
In short period of time, the multi-ethnic community of gold miners managed to create a proto-state formation based on the Russian principles of state-building, which had its own legislative, executive, and judicial authorities, coat-of-arms, fl ag, army, and punitive agencies. The Republic ...