While preparing for the Invasion of Russia, Hitler decided to attack Greece in December 1940 to prevent a British attack on his southern flank.

As Napoleon was preparing an army for his invasion of Russia, he wanted troops from the entire region under his control, the allied border countries.

Napoleon, now emperor, assembled armies on the coast of France to invade Great Britain, but Austria and Russia, the UK's allies, were preparing to invade France.

Gustav IV naturally rejected all the proposals of Alexander to close the Baltic against the English ; but took no measures to defend Finland against Russia, though, during the autumn of 1807, it was notorious ( obvious ) that the tsar was preparing to attack the grand duchy.

Full-size stealth combat aircraft demonstrators have been flown by the United States ( in 1977 ), Russia ( in 2010 ) and China ( in 2011 ), while the US military has already adopted three stealth designs, and is preparing to adopt another.

A few years later, Russia learned that the U. S. was preparing an expedition to Japan.

As Russia negotiated the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, he ordered Rumcherod troops to march towards Romania, which was by then giving in to the German advances and preparing to sign its own peace.

Ulyanov and his comrades began preparing an assassination attempt on the life of Alexander III of Russia.

Perovskaya participated in preparing assassination attempts on Alexander II of Russia near Moscow ( November, 1879 ), in Odessa ( spring of 1880 ), and Saint Petersburg ( the attempt that eventually killed him, 1 March 1881 ).

Aware that Russia was preparing for war, in the spring of 1632 the Sejm ( Polish-Lithuanian parliament ) increased the army by recruiting an additional 4, 500 men ; by mid-1632 the deputy voivode ( podwojewoda ) of Smolensk, Samuel Drucki-Sokoliński, had about 500 volunteers from pospolite ruszenie and 2, 500 regular army soldiers and Cossacks.

Having passed his master's exams, Danilevsky was preparing to defend his thesis on the flora of the Black Sea area of European Russia when in 1849 he was arrested for his membership of the Petrashevsky Circle.

Delahaye states that besides supporting the Union, Russia was also preparing for a war with France and England should they intervene in the Polish insurrection of 1863.

Lavrov considered the intelligentsia the only portion of society capable of preparing Russia for participation in a worldwide socialist revolution.

It is the oldest and the most renowned school in Russia for preparing professionals in international relations and diplomacy.

In this year he was feverishly active in collecting information as to the coalition that was secretly preparing to crush Russia, and in preparing for the war, he took a leading part in the discussions which eventuated in Frederick's decision to strike the first blow.

Currently, the USTU is preparing to undergo integration with several other universities in Yekaterinburg in order to increase its chances for successful competition with other universities in Russia.

While Boulahrouz was in Switzerland preparing for the Euro 2008 quarter finals against Russia, his wife Sabia gave birth to a prematurely born daughter Anissa who died in a Lausanne hospital.

There he became friends with Aleksandr Ulyanov and Petr Shevyrev, two young revolutionaries that were preparing an assassination attempt on the life of Alexander III of Russia.

But there was no getting over the fact that his father had sworn to pardon him and let him live in peace if he returned to Russia.

Russia had let them down recently.

It opened the door to visits from royalty across Europe including the Czar of Russia and let him acquire dozens of attractions, including automatons and other mechanical marvels.

When the question of whether Åland should be handed over to Sweden after the independence of Finland from Russia was brought up, he let the League of Nation decide upon the issue.

Although Russia was largely closed off to international relief and aid, Save the Children persuaded Soviet authorities to let them have a ground presence.

But when his father died shortly afterward, his mother refused to let the ten year-old boy leave for Russia, nor did his elder brother, the new king, believe the Russians were seriously considering the proposal.

To support the anti war sentiment in Russia, it let the leader of the Russian Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, pass in a sealed train wagon from his exile in Switzerland through Germany, Sweden and Finland to Petrograd.

When Nazimova was a student in Russia she wanted to “ play Regina for my graduation piece at the dramatic school at Moscow, but they would not let me.

The establishments of the Peace of Riga in 1921 let Poland retrieve some of the Castle collection from the USSR ( which the Russian authorities took to Russia ).

In a report by the Jamestown Federation, dealing with the topic of the ( extremely positive according to the report ) reception of John McCain's statements about Russia's " double standards in the Caucasus " ( referring to how Russia recognized South Ossetia but would not let Chechnya go ), one Chechen was quoted to have gone so far as to tell the website that Chechnya " cannot exist within the borders of Russia because every 50 years ... Russia kills us Chechens "., demonstrating local fear of the Russian government.

Better to let Russia see that there is nothing to be achieved by aggression, but there are advantages in joining: Then the Russian regime ’ s attitude will probably change and they will take part without compulsion.

One of the witnesses of this triumph, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, let William Charles know how excited he had been by the race, and the Earl promptly named his horse " The Emperor " in honour of the distinguished Russian visitor.

* As the empire weakened militarily, it would inevitably lose control through foreign victories ( Russia took large chunks of territory ; the Christian empires helped ever more parts of the Balkans secede, often after a vassalic stage, such as the hospodars ) but also see real control over some of its ( mainly remote ) provinces slip away to a state of little more than formal sovereignty over tributary, de facto autonomous states.

Max Cavalera guested on the Apocalyptica single " Repressed " with Bullet For My Valentine vocalist Matt Tuck during a visit to Germany, went to Russia in January 2007 to guest on the album Circus Dogs by Russian hardcore band FAQ and played on Saint-Petersbourg with Radiohead album sound producer Nike " Naik " Groshin, played a surprise jam session in Serbia with Dan Lilker of Brutal Truth and S. O. D., and spent time in Arizona writing for future releases.

These are Havana Bay, set in communist Cuba ; Wolves Eat Dogs, which follows Renko in the disaster of Chernobyl ; Stalin's Ghost in which Arkady returns to a Russia led by Vladimir Putin, and Three Stations.

A new fan-based title from Akella's pirate series called Sea Dogs: Return Of The Legend is available only in Russia and the CIS.

On November 19, 2008, the Sea Dogs hosted game 2 of the Canada Russia Challenge, before a sell-out crowd at Harbour Station.

The 2008 ADT Canada Russia Challenge in Saint John included four Sea Dogs players.

Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas -- Germany in Russia, Japan in China again.

George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.

* 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany ; Austria declares war on Russia.

* 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

War was once more declared against Russia in 1787 and in the following year the Russians were joined by Austria.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

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.

Shortly after the start of World War I, Germany launched a biological sabotage campaign in the United States, Russia, Romania, and France.

In May 1916 the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Russia agreed the Sykes – Picot Agreement, which defined their proposed spheres of influence and control in Western Asia should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1992 7th ed.

Following the First Chechen War with Russia, Chechnya gained de facto independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

The Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) was exceptional because both sides of the war received support from intervening great powers: Germany, Italy, and Portugal supported opposition leader Francisco Franco, while France and Russia supported the government ( see proxy war ).

Thus, no two nuclear powers have yet fought a conventional war directly, with the exception of brief skirmishes between for example, China and Russia in the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict and between India and Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War.

Following the Ottoman Empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828 – 29, in 1833 Russia pressured the Ottomans to sign the Treaty of Hunkiar Iskelesi — which required the straits to be closed to warships of non-Black Sea powers at Russia's request.

* Russia during the Civil War

In 1878, Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War ; the resulting Treaty of San Stefano gave Russia considerable influence in the Balkans.

This territory, amounting to some, was incorporated into Russia by Joseph Stalin at the end of World War II.

During the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, Elbląg and Danzig ( Gdańsk ) were placed under military occupation by Russia and Saxony.

The town came again under occupation by Russia from 1758-1762 during the Seven Years ' War.