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Russia's GDP by purchasing power parity (PPP) from 1991 to 2019 (in international dollars) Russian male life expectancy from 1980 to 2007. With the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and COMECON and other treaties that served to bind its satellite states to the Soviet Union, the conversion of the world's largest state-controlled economy into a market-oriented economy would have been ...
2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown [12] [13] 2016: 8 September: 2016 Russian legislative election: 19 December: Assassination of Andrei Karlov: 2017 1–3 June St. Petersburg International Economic Forum [14] 17 June - 2 July 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup [15] 2018 18 March 2018 Russian presidential election [16] 25-26 March 2018 Kemerovo fire ...
Russian sources have accused Finland and Estonia of stirring up separatist sentiment in the Finno-Ugric republics and regions of Russia. [22] Head of the Security Council of Russia Nikolai Patrushev often accused Finland of support separatism in Karelia, [23] going so far as claiming that Finland is creating a battalion of separatists to invade the Republic.
2011–2013 Russian protests against the conduct of Russia's parliamentary elections Vladimir Putin and pro-Russian Crimea leaders sign the Treaty on Accession of the Republic of Crimea to Russia in 2014. In 2000, the new acting president won the presidential election on 26 March and won in a landslide four years later. [273]
Menon, Rajan, and Eugene B. Rumer, eds. Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War Order (MIT Press, 2015). Peterson, James W. Russian-American relations in the post–Cold War world (Oxford UP, 2017). Sakwa, Richard. Russia against the Rest: The Post–Cold War Crisis of World Order (Cambridge UP, 2017) 362pp online review; Wood ...
The Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs was established by the Ukrainian government on 20 April 2016 to manage occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea regions affected by Russian military intervention of 2014. [352] By 2015, the number of IDPs registered in Ukraine who had fled from Russian-occupied Crimea was 50,000. [353]
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 land area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] Russia is the ninth-most populous country in the world and the most populous country in Europe. It is a ...
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia declared the annexation of four partially-occupied Ukrainian provinces (oblasts), including the territory that had been under the control of the break-away Donetsk and Luhansk republics since 2014, and claimed the entirety of Donetsk and Luhansk provinces as Russian republics. These also ...