** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian battleship Imperator Aleksander III Russian warship

** Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

** Vladimirskaya ( Russian Orthodox )

** Romanov sainthood ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the only completed ship of this class

** List of Russian rulers: early Grand Dukes and Tsars

** Alexander Nevsky ( Repose, Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian original was written in 1970, distributed by samizdat, and eventually printed as Восленский М. С., Номенклатура.

** In many languages ( e. g., Czech, English, French, Interlingua, and Russian ), the sets of relative and interrogative pronouns are nearly identical.

** Many languages, such as Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch and most Occitan variants, use trilled rhotics.

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** 101. mendelevium, Md, named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements ( 1955 ).

** Romanized Russian: Dogovor o druzhbe, sotrudnichestve i vzaimnoy pomoshchi

** Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler

** Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, Russian astronomer and inventor ( b. 1896 )

** The First Chechen War ( 1994 – 1996 ) – the conflict was fought between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator

** Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer

** Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

** Lena Katina, Russian singer

** Ron Cyrus ( 1935 – 2006 ), Kentucky politician

** Leonard Darwin ( 1850 – 1943 ), soldier, politician, and activist

** Clement Freud, Ernst's son, English politician, writer, chef and raconteur

** Hans Reinowski, German politician ( b. 1900 )

** Mrs. Madeline Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home ; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse from Paris.

** Sarah Palin, American politician, former Governor of Alaska

** Juha Turunen, Finnish politician turned criminal

** Don Dunstan, Australian politician ( b. 1926 )

** Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales ( b. 1922 )

** Carl Gunter Jr, American politician ( b. 1938 )

** James C. Murray, American politician ( b. 1917 )

** John Desborough, English soldier and politician ( d. 1680 )

** Geoffrey Fenton, English writer and politician ( b. c. 1539 )

** Otis R. Bowen, American politician

** Orville L. Freeman, American politician ( d. 2003 )

** Ellis H. Roberts, American politician ( b. 1827 )

** Larry O ' Brien, American politician and former NBA commissioner ( d. 1990 )

** John Connally, American politician ( b. 1917 )

** Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician

** Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician

** Chris Smith, British politician

** Jim DeMint, American politician

** Mo Mowlam, British politician ( d. 2005 )

** Nick Ainger, British politician

** Jerome F. Donovan, American politician ( b. 1872 )