In November 2010, DiCaprio donated $ 1, 000, 000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia's tiger summit, causing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a " muzhik " or " real man ".

Karzai with President of Russia | Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010.

According to the 2010 Census, the city had a permanent population of 343, 334 ; up from 328, 809 recorded in the 2002 Census, making it Russia's largest resort city.

Further reports in May 2010 based on statements from Col. Eduard Sigalov in Russia's air and space defense forces, indicated that Russia was " developing a fundamentally new weapon that can destroy potential targets in space.

The fishing industry, although still operating significantly below the Soviet level of production, remains profitable, supplying 20 % of Russia's fish in 2006 and with the volumes steadily growing in 2007 – 2010.

On 7 December 2010 Russia's Foreign Ministry described the affair as " vaudeville based on a threadbare spy plot " being whipped up by the UK media, which could " only be regarded with pity ".

Today ( 2010 ) he hosts an eponymous interview show " Pozner " on Russia's Channel One Pozner asked his guests questions on behalf of Mr. Sineboka-to the " Arab spring.

2010 song I Bolsche Nikogo (" And Nobody Else ( That I Love ") addresses Saint Petersburg's intended image as " Russia's cultural capital ", ridiculed with the use of mat and references to alcoholism and street crime.

Cherny Zemli Nature Reserve was created in Russia's Kalmykia Republic in the 1990s to protect the local saiga population, and the president of Russia's Kalmykia Republic, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, announced 2010 in Kalmykia as the Year of Saiga.

* 10 April 2010 – 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash ; during a descent towards Russia's Smolensk North Airport, the flight crew of the Polish presidential jet ignored automatic warnings and attempted a risky landing in heavy fog.

* James McCanney, hosting his revisionist Science Hour At the Crossroads ( where the latitude of Russia's capital is now the same as that of England's, rather than Scotland's, as broadcast on 9. Dec. 2010 )

According to Russia's 2002 Census, Omsk Oblast has one of the lowest birth rates in Siberia.

* On August 2, 2012 Aleksandr Tkachev governor of Russia's Krasnodar Krai announced plans to deploy a paramilitary force of Cossacks in September, 2012 whose mission would be to discourage internal migration by Muslim Russians.

Russia's Cossacks became imperial extensions and Russia sent its own soldiers to meet the escalating conflict ( which was no longer simply between Russian and Kumyk ).

During this period, three of Russia's most notorious rebels, Stenka Razin, Kondraty Bulavin and Emelian Pugachev, were Don Cossacks.

Astrakhan Cossack Host ( Астраханское казачье войско in Russian ) was a Cossack host of Imperial Russia drawn from the Cossacks of the Lower Volga region, who had been patrolling the banks of the Volga River from the time of Russia's annexation of Astrakhan Khanate in 1556.

Russia's government needs no more service of the Zaporizhian Cossacks for protection of the borders in that area.

* And Quiet Flows the Don, a 1934 novel about Cossacks living in Russia's Don River valley in the early 20th century, by Russian author Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Russia's young gymnasts have studied dance before having the rigorous training on apparatus.

Western observers have raised questions as to how much of Russia's political system corresponds to Western liberal democratic ideals.

Academics have often complained about the difficulty of classifying Russia's political system.

For instance, leading figures in the legislative and executive branches have put forth opposing views of Russia's political direction and the governmental instruments that should be used to follow it.

According to the data of the Maritime Board ( Morskaya Kollegiya ) of the Russian Government for 2004, 136. 6 million tons of cargo have been carried that year over Russia's inland waterways, the total cargo transportation volume being 87, 556. 5 million ton-km.

Recently, Russian-Turkmenistan relations have revolved around Russia's efforts to secure natural gas export deals from Turkmenistan.

Specifically, the isolation from the West may have caused Russia's later non-involvement in the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and failure to develop a middle class.

A grand mobilization covering Russia's vast territories would have been unrealistic.

These obstacles may have left Russia on a far worse footing than other former Communist-led states to Russia's west that were also going through dual economic and political transitions, such as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, which have fared better since the collapse of the Eastern bloc between 1989 and 1991.

In the West, the reaction to Russia's handling of, or perhaps interference in, the Ukrainian election evoked echoes of the Cold War, but relations with the U. S. have remained stable.

Relations with the West have also been stained by Russia's relationship with Belarus.

Most Russian rural localities have populations of less than 200 people, and the smaller places take the brunt of depopulation: e. g., in 1959, about one half of Russia's rural population lived in villages of fewer than 500 people, while now less than one third does.

The large number of educational institutions in the city have contributed to making Tomsk a major center for Russia's IT industry.

Yet another theory is that the name may have had its origins in the efforts made by Russia's tsars to distinguish themselves from their predecessors in Rome and Byzantium ( on the basis that Russia was the " Third Rome ").

Although the start of their relations were very favourable, Bangladesh and Russia's relations have fluctuated greatly from extremely warm during the early 1970s to an all time low during the 1980s ( attributed to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ).

* Back in the U. S. S. R. A museum curator suggests Russia's BESM supercomputer may have been superior to the USA's supercomputers during the early stages of the Cold War.

Kutuzov understood that the Russian people never wanted to abandon Moscow, the city which was regarded as Russia's " second capital "; however he also believed that the Russian Army couldn't have enough force to protect that city.

According to an amendment passed in December 2004, governors and presidents of Russia's constituent regions, who were previously elected by popular vote, are now proposed by the President of Russia for the approval of the local parliament Local parliaments theoretically have the authority to reject the candidate, but if this occurs three times, the parliament may be dissolved by the President and new parliamentary elections held.

In the last days before the outbreak of war, once it became clear that, should war break out, British involvement was inevitable, he appeared to have some second thoughts, and he took half-hearted measures to prevent an all out war, until Russia's mobilization on 31 July 1914, took the matter out of his hands.

All have a significant advantage over Russia's high latitude launch sites.

There have been ( at least ) four major false alarms, the most recent in 1995, that resulted in the activation of either the US's or Russia's nuclear attack early warning protocols.

Domodedovo is Russia's first airport to have parallel runways operating simultaneously.

After six years in prison, observers have argued that Khodorkovsky has been transformed from an oligarch into a martyr: " He speaks with the authority of a chief executive of what was once Russia's largest oil company.