This treaty was signed between the Russian and Ottoman Empires on July 21, 1774. The treaty ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-74 and established peace between the two regions. One provision within the treaty noted that neither empire would interfere in the newly independent Crimean Khanate....
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without specifying the cause, and that the Moskva was being towed to the Russian-occupied port of Sevastopol in Ukraine’s Crimea. Later on Thursday, they said the warship had sunk in “stormy
went deep into their lands and reached the banks of the Don River. Kagan was forced to formally obey the Caliphate and, in the tenth century, the Khazars began to rapidly lose their power under the blows of another powerful enemy. By this time, the first centralized ancient Russian state,...
main cabin of an airplane, so Wise developed his second theory: three Russian passengers, one of whom was sitting near the hatch to the electronics bay, hijacked MH370 and flew the plane to Kazakhstan, hoping it would distract from the Russian invasion of Crimea that began in February...
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Karl Marx first published his pamphlet titled The Communist Manifesto in 1848 but the first government in existence that is influenced by his ideas only came in Nov. 7, 1917 when the Bolsheviks took over the Russian government led by Alexander Kerensky. It was a bold experiment in history ...
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None of this is to saythat Russian and Ukrainian histories have not been braided and knotted together over the centuries, but simply to acknowledge that they have been, perennially, two distinct strands. Putin’s essay makes the medieval Kyivan Rus the original Russian state, but its founding r...