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Russian Ark (Russian: Русский ковчег, romanized: Russkij kovcheg) is a 2002 experimental historical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The plot follows an unnamed narrator, who wanders through the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg , and implies that he died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through.
Arkaim (Russian: Аркаим) is a fortified archaeological site, dated to c. 2150-1650 BCE, [1] belonging to the Sintashta culture, situated in the steppe of the Southern Urals, 8.2 km (5.10 mi) north-northwest of the village of Amursky and 2.3 km (1.43 mi) east-southeast of the village of Alexandrovsky in the Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia, just north of the border with Kazakhstan. [2]
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Russian clubs CSKA Moscow and Zenit Saint Petersburg won the UEFA Cup in 2005 and 2008. [191] [192] The Russian national football team reached the semi-finals of Euro 2008. [193] Russia was the host nation for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, [194] and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. [195] Ice hockey is very popular in Russia. [196]
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised ...
The Ark was founded by a Russian lawyer and human rights activist, former head of the Open Russia foundation, Anastasia Burakova. The project was inspired by the House of United Belarus in Vilnius that united Belarus migrants fleeing the repressions after the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests.
Arkhangelsk [a] (Russian: Архангельск, pronounced [ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its mouth into the White Sea.
English: Map of federal subjects, municipal districts and urban okrugs of Russia. Asia North Equidistant Conic projection (EPSG: 102026).WSG84 datum. Central meridian: 95°E.