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We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. Kizhi Island in Karelia, 764 km north of Moscow, is home to Russia's oldest surviving wooden ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. The Bolsheviks oppressed the Orthodox Church after seizing power in Russia – but Stalin ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. Probably the first thing you ought to know is why a revolution at all happened in Russia and ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. The most famous fictitious last name Vladimir Ulyanov ever used is, undoubtedly, Lenin.

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We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. It was Lenin who first trusted Kaganovich with positions of high responsibility. The ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. The striking similarities in Sanskrit and Russian indicate that during some period of history ...

Kira Muratova/Odessa Film Studio, 1967 The Soviet Union had some of the most gifted filmmakers of the world, including blue-chip directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Andrei Konchalovsky. While some ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. According to one theory, ‘Russian roulette’ emerged in the Tsarist army as a relatively ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. Pavel Tretyakov came from an old merchant family. In the second half of the 18th century, his ...

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