In the last war Russia lost more than ten million killed and its lands and factories were devastated.

From six to nine million additional Germans would be evicted, though most would have fled, and Poland would receive far more from Germany than the poor territories, including the great Pripet Marshes, which she lost to Russia.

After the Continuation War Finland lost major land areas to Russia in the Moscow Armistice of 1944, and the figure was said to have lost the other of her arms, as well as a hem of her " skirt ".

Despite having " lost " its Soviet periphery, Russia has 9 time zones, stretching slightly over half the world's longitude.

Warfare with the Cossacks and Russia left Ukraine divided, with the eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency.

However, Russia has lost its superpower status as it faced serious challenges in its efforts to forge a new post-Soviet political and economic system.

During the reign of Daniel of Russia | Daniel, Moscow was little more than a small timber fort lost in the forests of Central Russia.

Recovery of lost territories started in the mid-17th century, when the Khmelnitsky Uprising in Ukraine against Polish rule brought about the Treaty of Pereyaslav concluded between Russia and the Ukrainian Cossacks.

The islands are almost exclusively Swedish-speaking, but in 1809, Sweden had lost both Finland and the Åland Islands to Imperial Russia.

Although early Pan-Slavism had found interest among some Poles, it soon lost its appeal as the movement became dominated by Russia, and while Russian Pan-Slavists spoke of liberation of other Slavs through Russian actions, parts of Poland had been ruled by the Russian Empire since the Partitions of Poland.

Ruling from 1682 to 1725, Peter defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War, forcing it to cede West Karelia and Ingria ( two regions lost by Russia in the Time of Troubles ), as well as Estland and Livland, securing Russia's access to the sea and sea trade.

Whereas the Soviets sought Amanullah's assistance in suppressing anti-Bolshevik elements in Central Asia in return for help against the British, the Afghans were more interested in regaining lands across the Amu Darya lost to Russia in the nineteenth century.

Non-Russians who inhabited the lands lost by Bolshevik Russia in the treaty saw the changes as an opportunity to set up independent states not under Bolshevik rule.

An estimated four to seven thousand Pacific walruses are harvested in Alaska and in Russia, including a significant portion ( about 42 %) of struck and lost animals.

** Finnish War: The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia.

After the Finnish War, which ended when Sweden ceded Finland to Imperial Russia at the Treaty of Fredrikshamn in 1809, Turku became briefly the official capital, but soon lost the status to Helsinki, as Emperor Alexander I felt that Turku was too far from Russia and too aligned with Sweden to serve as the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

In 1737, after the War of the Polish Succession, Lorraine was part of an agreement between France, the House of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, who despite French support had lost out to a candidate backed by Russia and Austria in the War of the Polish Succession.

When Sweden lost the city of Viborg to Russia in 1721, the episcopal seat was moved to Porvoo.

However, some princely titles develop in unusual ways, such as adoption of a style for dynasts which is not pegged to the ruler's title, but rather continues an old tradition ( e. g. grand duke in Romanov Russia ), claims dynastic succession to a lost monarchy ( e. g. prince de Tarente for the La Trémoïlle heirs to the Neapolitan throne, or is simply assumed by fiat ( e. g. prince Français by the House of Bonaparte ).

Khodorkovsky was jailed in Russia and has lost his YUKOS company, formerly the largest oil producer in Russia.

Russia has showed its intentions by exploding bombs in peace time to try to frighten the world.

I am prepared to demonstrate at anytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; ;

This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.

The vast majority of energy is produced with imported fuel, including gas and nuclear fuel ( for its one nuclear power plant ) from Russia ; the main domestic energy source is hydroelectric.

Finally, while Armenia is not the only ex-Soviet state that has incurred multimillion-dollar debts to Russia over the past decade, it is the only state to have so far given up such a large share of its economic infrastructure to Russia.

Since its independence, Armenia has maintained a policy of complementarism by trying to have friendly relations both with Iran, Russia, and the West, including the United States and Europe.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

His second war with Russia, which began in 1826, ended in a string of costly defeats after which Persia was forced to cede nearly all of its Armenian territories and Nakhchivan.

Ill feeling mounted against Russia for its encouragement of the rebellions.

In the case of Russia, the United States stated that it intended to discuss a bilateral reduction in the numbers of nuclear warheads, which would allow Russia to reduce its spending on missiles without decrease of comparative strength.

The downfall in this system began on August 17, 1998, when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt and domestic dollar debt.

In Russia, it is used in addition or as a replacement to pectin in jams and marmalades, as a substitute to gelatin for its superior gelling properties, and as a strengthening ingredient in souffles and custards.

On July 2011, Beltelecom announced a plan to raise the capacity of its Internet gateway to Russia by 20Gbit / s by the end of 2011 and announced a tender to provide the service.

Russia has an embassy in Gaborone, while Botswana covers Russia from its embassy in Stockholm ( Sweden ) and an honorary consulate in Moscow.

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

In late 2005, the FABF acquired two Mil Mi-35 ' Hind ' attack helicopters from Russia in apparent response by moves by neighbouring Côte d ' Ivoire to bolster its own air attack capabilities during the Ivorian Civil War.

Germany and its allies infected French cavalry horses and many of Russia ’ s mules and horses on the Eastern Front.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

But Bulgaria, by making the acceptance of Russian arbitration conditional, in effect denied any discussion and caused Russia to repudiate its alliance with Bulgaria ( see Russo-Bulgarian military convention signed 31 May 1902 ).

* Russia was a prime mover in the establishment of the Balkan League and saw it as an essential tool in case of a future war against its rival, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In the 19th Century, the Tsarist Government of Russia claimed that Ukrainian was merely a dialect of Russian and not a language in its own right.

Kulaks (; " fist ", by extension " tight-fisted "; kurkuls in Ukraine, also used in Russian texts in Ukrainian contexts ) were a category of relatively affluent farmers in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union.

Anton Gretzky has been described as having " been born in Russia with Ukrainian forebears ", while " the only Slavic language spoken in the Gretzky family Ukrainian ".

* January 25 – The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.

After the victory of Bolshevist Russia in the Russian Civil War, the Ukrainian SSR was created in 1922, and in 1924 the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on a strip of Ukrainian land on the left bank of the Dniester River where Moldovans and Romanians accounted for less than a third and the relative majority of population was Ukrainian.

Russian-speakers from Ukraine and Southern Russia often use the soft Ukrainian г, in place of the hard Old East Slavic one.

Ivan Mazepa was a Ukrainian cossack hetman who fought for Russia but defected to Charles XII in 1708.

On April 27, 2010, Russia and Ukraine ratified the Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas treaty, extending the Russian Navy's lease of the Sevastopol base for 25 years after 2017 ( through 2042 ) with an option to prolong the lease for another 5 years ( through 2047 ).

In other countries Russian faithful usually belong to the local Orthodox congregations which either have a direct connection ( like the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, autonomous from the Moscow Patriarchate ) or historical origin ( like the Orthodox Church in America or a Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ) with the Russian Orthodox Church.

But only in the modern Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages is there a distinction between the modern country of Russia and the suffix "- rus " ( it is a part of heritage of The Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ):

In 2005, a highly-publicized dispute over natural gas prices took place, involving Russian state-owned gas supplier Gazprom, and indirectly involving many European countries which depend on natural gas supplied by Russia through the Ukrainian pipeline.

On 11 October 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison after she was found guilty of abuse of office when brokering the 2009 gas deal with Russia.

According to the Russian history the Ukrainian forces, under the command of Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa, had been in discussions with Charles for some time, and at this point he, Mazepa, officially allied himself to the Swedes in order to gain independence from Russia.

From this moment the city has become the arena of numerous attacks and battles between Ukrainian Cossaks, Russia and Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth.

Then-opposition leader and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko caused a stir by publishing an article entitled " Containing Russia " in the May – June 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs accusing Russia under Vladimir Putin of expansionism and urging the rest of Europe to stand against him.

* Crazy Day or The Marriage of Figaro a comedy musical staged by Russian and Ukrainian television channels NTV ( Russia ) and Inter

Many of the early classical composers of Russia such as Dmitry Bortniansky, Maksym Berezovsky and Artemy Vedel and a significant number of others were of Ukrainian descent.

In 1918 he returned to Kiev and assisted Vladimir Vernadsky in establishing the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences – the oldest academy among the Soviet republics other than Russia.

In late June Nekrasov was one of the Provisional Government's representatives at the negotiations with the Ukrainian Rada, which granted Ukraine a measure of autonomy within Russia.