Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
The modern history of Russia began with the Russian SFSR, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1988–1991, proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990, and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later. The Russian ...
Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. [41] The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia. [42] The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was ...
Mikhail Lomonosov and Count Ivan Shuvalov founded the University of Moscow. 1756: 29 August: Seven Years' War: The Kingdom of Prussia invaded the Austrian protectorate of Saxony. 1757: 1 May: Diplomatic Revolution: Under the Second Treaty of Versailles, Russia joined the Franco-Austrian military alliance. 17 May: Seven Years' War: Russian ...
Trump meanwhile was on the telephone to Russian President Vladimir Putin, agreeing that their two countries would "work closely" to end the devastating war started nearly three years ago when ...
In 2022, basketball player Brittney Griner was detained and sentenced to nine years in prison for bringing hash oil into Russia. She was freed in a prisoner exchange later that year.
Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Czar Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740. Through the early 1920s, it was used as a prison and execution ground by the Bolshevik government.
A dual Russian-American citizen, Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison last August after a Russian court found her guilty of treason for donating just over $50 to a New York-based charity ...