Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

However, this was halted as a report reached Constantinople that the Safavids were invading the Ottoman Empire, causing a period of panic, turning the Sultan's attention away from Russia.

Russian and British troops were quickly alerted, but the two powers reached a compromise ; Russia was in possession of the oasis, and Britain believed it could keep the Russians from advancing any farther.

In 1879, Bismarck formed a Dual Alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary, with the aim of mutual military assistance in the case of an attack from Russia, which was not satisfied with the agreement reached at the Congress of Berlin.

A tighter security alliance with the United States was announced in the middle of the Georgian crisis as an agreement between the two countries was reached to allow the US to install and operate an interceptor missile defense shield, a move which Russia sees explicitly targeting it and which it stated made Poland " a legit military target.

However, due to the lower population density and better hygiene ( widespread practicing of banya, the wet steam bath ), the population loss caused by plagues was not so severe as in the Western Europe, and the pre-Plague populations were reached in Russia as early as 1500.

In 2011, the population of Russia grew by 191, 000 people, and reached a total of more than 143 million.

In September 2012, and after months of negotiating, Russia and Tajikistan have reached an agreement on what Russia will pay for its bases in Tajikistan and extended the lease to 20 or 29 years.

In the 1550s, after the Tsardom of Russia had defeated the Khanate of Kazan and proceeded to gradually annex the lands of the Bashkirs, the Russians finally reached the southern part of the mountain chain.

On March 13, seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw ; four days later the United Kingdom, Russia, Austria and Prussia, members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150, 000 men each into the field to end his rule.

The glove factories reached their Golden Age at that time, and their products were exported to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.

Eventually Greek colonization reached as far northeast as present day Ukraine and Russia ( Taganrog ).

The agreement was reached following a series of six-party talks, involving North Korea, South Korea, China, Russia, Japan and the U. S. begun in 2003.

Pulled by engines of the various countries of the Soviet Bloc, the train reached Russia and a welcome market.

He served with distinction in the wars with Russia and Poland, and had reached the rank of Colonel by the age of 25.

Britain was concerned that Russia would take advantage of Chinese weakness in policing the area to gain territory, and in 1893 reached agreement with Russia to demarcate the rest of the border, a process completed in 1895.

The spill stretched 80 kilometers and eventually reached the Amur River in Russia.

The use of tachankas reached its peak during the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 1920s ), particularly in the peasant regions of Southern Russia and Ukraine, where the fronts were fluid and mobile warfare gained much significance.

On 13 March, seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw, and on 25 March, five days after his arrival in Paris, Austria, Prussia, Russia and the United Kingdom, members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150, 000 men each into the field to end his rule.

Marred by financial and disciplinary disputes, the 1994 Cameroon squad was a shadow of that which had reached the quarter-finals in 1990, mustering just one point from three matches, and finishing with a 6 – 1 defeat to Russia.

Just days after the railway reached Nice in 1864, Tsar Alexander II of Russia visited on a private train, followed soon afterwards by Napoleon III and then Leopold II, the King of the Belgians.

This is not only an issue in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia ; the fallout also reached western Europe, and until recently the German government discouraged people gathering certain mushrooms.

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

By the 1890s, German colonial expansion in Asia and the Pacific ( Kiauchau in China, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, Samoa ) led to frictions with Britain, Russia, Japan and the United States.

By the 18th century, the Tsardom of Russia had become the huge Russian Empire, stretching from the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth eastward to the Pacific Ocean.

In the same period, the Empire of Japan, following the Meiji Restoration ; the German Empire, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 ; Tsarist Russia ; and the United States, following the Spanish-American War in 1898, quickly emerged as new imperial powers in East Asia and in the Pacific Ocean area.

: international: satellite earth stations-5 Intelsat ( 4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean ), 1 Intersputnik ( Indian Ocean region ), and 1 Inmarsat ( Pacific and Indian Ocean regions ); submerged cables to China, Philippines, Russia, and US ( via Guam )

* 1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.

Not only must Latin America be left alone, he warned, but also Russia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast.

Major production sites include Sudbury region in Canada ( which is thought to be of meteoric origin ), New Caledonia in the Pacific and Norilsk in Russia.

Reached Russia ( see Cholera Riots ), Hungary ( about 100, 000 deaths ) and Germany in 1831, London in 1832 ( more than 55, 000 persons died in the United Kingdom ), France, Canada ( Ontario ), and United States ( New York ) in the same year, and the Pacific coast of North America by 1834.

Russia has an extensive coastline of over along the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, as well as along the Baltic Sea, Sea of Azov, Black Sea and Caspian Sea.

The Barents Sea, White Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and the Sea of Japan are linked to Russia via the Arctic and Pacific.

It also covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Norway, lowland / coastal areas of Iceland, much of Russia from St. Petersburg in the west to the Pacific ocean ( including much of Siberia ), northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan ( on the island of Hokkaidō ).

The Pacific Ocean, perhaps half again as wide as the Hudson, separates the United States from three flattened land masses labeled China, Japan and Russia.

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.

The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 was signed by Canada, Japan, Russia, and the United States to restrict hunting in the area.

Russia ’ s main Pacific port and naval base of Vladivostok, once closed to foreigners, bristles with Chinese markets, restaurants and trade houses.

As the Treaty of Portsmouth is considered one of the most powerful symbols of peace in the Northern Pacific region and the most significant, shared peace history for Japan, Russia and the United States, the Forum was designed to explore from the Japanese, Russian and American perspectives, the history of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and its relevance to current issues involving the Northern Pacific region.

The Soviet Pacific Fleet used the Sea as a ballistic missile submarine bastion, a strategy that Russia continues.

The island of Hokkaido is located at the north end of Japan, near Russia, and has coastlines on the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Pacific Ocean.

Strait of Tartary ( Gulf of Tartary, Gulf of Tatary, Tatar Strait, Tartar Strait, Strait of Tartar, also Chinese: 韃靼海峽, Japanese:, Mamiya Strait, Russian Татарский пролив ) is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia ( South-East Russia ), connecting the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south.

Russia wasted little time after the Triple Intervention to move men and materials down into the Liaodong to start building a railroad from both ends — Port Arthur and Harbin, as it already had railway construction in progress across northern Inner Manchuria to shorten the rail route to Russia's sole Pacific Ocean naval base at Sakhalin Island, a port closed by ice four months of each year.