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A lottery is a form of gambling which involves selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing their own national (state) lottery.
€240.0 million (US$258.3 million/£205.8 million) was the largest jackpot in the Euromillions history in the pan-European EuroMillions , won on 8 December 2023, the ticket was sold in Austria. [78] £195.7 million was the largest prize won by a British winner in the pan-European EuroMillions in sterling currency, won on 19 July 2022. [78]
The Russian Junior Figure Skating Championships (Russian: Первенство России по фигурному катанию среди юниоров) are organized annually by the Figure Skating Federation of Russia to determine the country's junior-level national champions. [1]
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
The Khodynka Tragedy (Russian: Ходынская трагедия) was a crowd crush that occurred on 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1896, on Khodynka Field in Moscow, Russia.The crush happened during the festivities after the coronation of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II.
Today, the low-grade silver chervonets of 1706 is an unidentified coin in the Russian numismatics system. When confirming a sample of silver about 210, it should be recognized as the first shestak. There are two types of [shestak] coins: without the medal on the chest and with the medal on the chest.
2 — Russia claimed 27 — rebels claimed The 17-year-old Khava Barayeva (relative of Arbi Barayev), accompanied by 16-year-old Luiza Magomadova, drove a truck loaded with explosives through a checkpoint of an OMON base at Alkhan-Yurt in Chechnya. Barayeva detonated her bomb outside the barracks, killing a number of paramilitary police troops ...
Ivashka in a Kosovorotka and Baba Yaga from the fairy tale about three Tsar vonders and about Ivaschka, the priest's son. Ivan Bilibin, 1911. A kosovorotka is a traditional Russian shirt, long sleeved and reaching down to the mid-thigh.