The Russian negotiators, however, refused to accept this offer and instead insisted that everybody be released,

Under the terms of the agreement reached at the Yalta Conference, all displaced Russian nationals were to be returned to the Soviet Union, but Soviet negotiators decided that the agreement did not apply to non-Russian spouses and children of the nationals.

* Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905 – see table used by Russian and Japanese negotiators

With White Russian general Denikin unwilling to guarantee Polish independence, Polish negotiators initiated another round of negotiations with the Bolsheviks, from October until December 1919 in Moscow and Mikaszewicze ( on Polesie ).

Aircraft with special characteristics that give them unique capabilities will often display those in their demos ; For example, Russian fighters with Thrust vectoring may be used to perform Pugachev's Cobra or the Kulbit, among other difficult manoeuvers that cannot be performed by other aircraft.

A possible example of actual use of two guns firing at the same time is " Dual wield ", practiced by Russian special forces.

Gaining control or special access to the strait became a key foreign policy goal of the Russian Empire during the 19th century.

* In August 2009, Russian customs officers had imposed special customs on Lithuanian trucks, lining up more than 20 kilometres of trucks from the Republic of Lithuania.

* Continuous strengthening of the strategic partnership with the United States, while devoting special attention to the relations and cooperation also with the Russian Federation and the People ’ s Republic of China.

The Stechkin APS made a comeback in the late 1970s, when Russian Spetsnaz special forces units in Afghanistan used suppressor-equipped machine pistols for clandestine missions in enemy territory, such as during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii made extensive use of this color separation technique, employing a special camera which successively exposed the three color-filtered images on different parts of an oblong plate.

For instance, in the Russian Orthodox Church Sunday is always observed with an All-Night Vigil on Saturday night, and in all of the Orthodox Churches it is amplified with special hymns which are chanted only on Sunday.

The Russian, American, and Italian Expedition 27 crew aboard the ISS sent a special video message to wish the people of the world a " Happy Yuri's Night ", wearing shirts with an image of Gagarin.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 added special force to fear of labor agitators and partisans of ideologies like anarchism.

In many inflected languages, such as Russian, Latin, and Greek, departures from the default word-orders are permissible but usually imply a shift in focus, an emphasis on the final element, or some special context.

Advanced systems were later developed and built for special military purposes, such as to find H-Bombs lost at sea or to find a lost Russian submarine, at the Westinghouse facility in Annapolis up through the 1990s.

Scientists who had obtained a doctorate ( a post-Ph. D. degree under the Russian system ) were rewarded by the authorities with the special food delivery service (" doktorskiy zakaz ”), which provided access to a wider selection of groceries than available to the general population ; some of the scientists, despite being eligible, refused it on moral grounds.

In both Russian and German armies the grenadier regiments were considered a historic elite, distinguished by distinctions such as plumed helmets in full dress or special braiding.

Separatists have also used the rifles alongside more modern Russian firearms in the Second war in Chechnya and even today, it seems that some 91 / 30 PU sniper rifles remain in service and are used on the field by Russian police, special forces and other paramilitary factions in Chechenia and other caucasus republics like Dagestan and Ingushetia.

To this end, it uses politico-military tools such as " maskirovka " ( Russian: " маскировка " camouflage ), or strategic politico-military deception, to pre-emptively and deniably prepare the battlespace for the initiation of hostilities, as well as the liberal use of special operations forces ( Spetznaz ), the inclusion of intelligence gathering personnel as combatants ( for example, the former KGB had military ranks, where Western intelligence agencies did not ), and use of politics as warfare by other means, such as through disinformation, psychological operations, and propaganda.

A special search through the sites devoted to the Old Russian literature.

It later turned out that the sewer system was utilized by the Russian special forces for listening purposes.

According to an officer in the Russian special forces cited by The Guardian, the leak was controlled: " We leaked the information that the storming would take place at three in the morning.

Early Saturday morning, 26 October, forces from Russia's Spetsnaz ( Special Forces, literally " special purpose ") from the FSB ( Alpha Group and Vympel ), with the assistance of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs ( MVD ) SOBR unit, surrounded and stormed the theater, first through the gay club Central Station that had opened a month prior in the underground level of the building ; all were heavily armed and masked.

After nearly one and a half hours of sporadic gun battles, the Russian special forces blew open the doors to the main hall and poured into the auditorium.

Moskovskij Komsomolets cited a Russian special forces operative saying that " if it were a usual storming, we'd have had 150 casualties among our men, added to the hostages.

Several Russian special forces operatives were also poisoned by the gas during the operation.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

* 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.

The last known incident of using plague corpses for biological warfare purposes occurred in 1710, when Russian forces attacked the Swedes by flinging plague-infected corpses over the city walls of Reval ( Tallinn ).

Its stated goal was “ to destroy the Russian forces deployed in the West and to prevent their escape into the wide-open spaces of Russia .” A key factor was the surprise attack which included the near annihilation of the total Soviet airforce by simultaneous attacks on airfields.

Other factors favouring the retention of mounted forces included the high quality of Russian Cossacks and other horse cavalry ; and the relative lack of roads suitable for wheeled vehicles in many parts of the Eastern Front.

Such tactics were successfully used by the French, for example, at the Battle of Friedland, when sixty-six guns fired a total of 3, 000 roundshot and 500 rounds of grapeshot, inflicting severe casualties to the Russian forces, whose losses numbered over 20, 000 killed and wounded, in total.

* 1806 – Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.

Having seized the Merv ( now Mary ) Oasis by 1884, Russian forces were directly adjacent to Afghanistan.

Estonia's immediate priority after regaining its independence was the withdrawal of Russian ( formerly Soviet ) forces from Estonian territory.

After Russian forces began to advance, previously buried victims were also exhumed and burned in Sonderaktion 1005, a Nazi attempt to destroy evidence of the Holocaust.

Additionally, many of the performers, producers, directors and other artists of pre-Soviet Russia, had fled the country or were moving ahead of the Red Army forces as they pushed further and further south into what remained of the Russian Empire.

* 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.

* 2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.

Whites besiege Tampere and encircle attacking Soviet Russian and Red forces at Rautu, on Karelian Isthmus.

On 5 November 1854, Russian forces tried to relieve the siege at Sevastopol and tried to defeat the Allied armies in the field in the battle of Inkerman.

British and U. S. civilian authorities ordered their military forces in Europe to deport to the Soviet Union up to two million former residents of the Soviet Union, including persons who had left the Russian Empire and established different citizenship years before.

The breakdown of Russian forces – exacerbated by internal turmoil caused by the 1917 Russian Revolution – led to an imposed peace and the favorable Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918 as Russia withdrew from the war.

Russian forces under General Bennigsen finally freed the city in 1814.

A renewal of popular liberation activities took place in 1860-1861 ; during the large scale demonstrations in Warsaw the Russian forces inflicted numerous casualties on the civilian participants.

Piłsudski had entertained far-reaching anti-Russian cooperative designs for Eastern Europe, and in 1919 the Polish forces pushed eastward into Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine ( previously a theater of the Polish – Ukrainian War ), taking advantage of the Russian preoccupation with the civil war.