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The Wagner Group, also known as PMC Wagner, [24] a Russian paramilitary organization [24] also described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, [24] [25] and a de facto unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, [26] has conducted operations in Ukraine since early 2014.
Dmitri Fyodorovich Polyakov (Russian: Дмитрий Фёдорович Поляков; 6 July 1921 – 15 March 1988) [1] was a Major General in the Soviet GRU during the Cold War. According to former high-level KGB officer Sergey Kondrashev , Polyakov acted as a KGB disinformation agent at the FBI's New York City field office when he was ...
"Nyet voynye!" and "No to war!" redirect here. For the band, see Voina. Graffiti on a wall in Moscow saying "No to war" "No to war!" is an anti-war slogan used by the demonstrators in the 2022 anti-war protests in Russia. Children also used this slogan on handmade signs and tried to leave their message outside the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow. They were arrested for those actions. Relatives of ...
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (Russian: Рудольф Иванович Абель) is the alias of William August Fisher (11 July 1903 – 15 November 1971), a Soviet intelligence officer, created to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when Fisher was arrested in the USA on charges of espionage by the FBI in 1957.
Uniform for high school students model 1954 (In use 1954–1962). In 1834, Nicholas I introduced a mandatory uniform for gymnasium students in the Russian Empire. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, their use ceased until 1949, when a standardised "universal" uniform began to be worn in all schools. [263]
The Internet Research Agency (IRA) is a Russian entity, sometimes called a "troll farm", tasked with coordinating online propaganda efforts to interfere in American elections. It is funded by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed "Putin's chef", owner of the Concord company group.
The Ukrainian military said it had destroyed a Russian military formation there. [217] Russia claimed to have shot down four drones outside Moscow while jamming a fifth with electronic warfare, forcing it to crash into the Odintsovo district of Moscow Oblast, some 30 kilometers southwest of the capital. No casualties were reported.
The present name of Fort Ross [5] appears first on a French chart published in 1842 by Eugène Duflot de Mofras, who visited California in 1840. [6] The name of the fort is said to derive from the Russian word rus or ros, the same root as the word "Russia" (Pоссия, Rossiya) (Fort Ross (Russian: Форт-Росс, Kashaya mé·ṭiʔni), originally Fortress Ross (pre-reformed Russian ...