She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.

But the Russians use gymnastics as the first step in training for all other sports because it provides training in every basic quality except one, endurance.

The reason for this bears explaining for those who may wonder why State spends so much of its diplomatic energy on Congress when the Russians are so available.

In the U. S., strong pressures have been building up for a resumption of tests on grounds that the Russians may be secretly testing.

The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868, partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.

It started from the exhaustion of necessities that the Russians provided to local people in return for furs they had made.

There were some negotiations with higher Aleut people about necessities that the Russians had run out of and that they had given to Aleuts in return for furs.

Holders of a Russian passport need a visa authorized by Costa Rica, or alternatively Costa Rican authorities will accept Russian nationals with a visa stamp for the European Union, Canada, USA, South Korea, or Japan valid for 90 days after arrival ; with a tourist visa, Russians can stay in Costa Rica for a maximum of 90 days.

The demi-lancers and the heavily armored sword-and-pistol reiters were among the types of cavalry whose heyday was in the 16th and 17th centuries, as for the Polish winged hussars, a heavy cavalry force that achieved great success against Swedes, Russians, and Turks.

The U. N. speech was well received but the Russians never acted upon it, due to an overarching concern for the greater stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the U. S. arsenal.

In May of that year the Russians agreed to sign a treaty giving independence to Austria, and paved the way for a Geneva summit with the U. S., U. K. and France.

This development outraged Austria-Hungary, who was Russia's chief competitor for influence in the Balkan region ( despite being an ally of the Russians and the Germans in the Three Emperors ' League ).

From the early 1930s the Japanese had been at war against both the Chinese Nationalists and the Russians in China, and used the experience to improve both training and aircraft, replacing biplanes with modern cantilever monoplanes and creating a cadre of exceptional pilots for use in the Pacific War.

She also wrote that the Soviets were " violating girls and women of all ages ", and about her, her daughter's and grandson's suffering as displaced persons in postwar Berlin, where the Germans abandoned them for a possible hostage exchange in April 1945, as the Russians were advancing.

The military significance of the Grand Duchy of Finland had been increasing for the Russians from the mid-19th century with the rising tensions and competition among the major European powers.

The policy of German leaders had been to foment unrest or revolution in Russia in order to force the Russians to sue for peace.

He also associates gambling and the idea of " getting rich quick ", suggesting that Russians may have a particular affinity for gambling.

Prince Menshikov called the attention of the Turks to the fact that during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ), the Russians had occupied the Turkish controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia on the north bank of the Danube River, but he reminded them that pursuant to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, however, the Russians had returned these " Danubian provinces " to Ottoman control in exchange for the right to protect the Christian sites in the Holy Land.

Ivory can be taken from dead animals — Russians dug up tusks from extinct mammoths — however most ivory came from elephants who were killed for their tusks.

Results of a controversial poll taken in 2006 stated that over 35 % of Russians would vote for Stalin if he were still alive.

He was also working for both Soviet and British intelligence, posting letters in a crude code to a fictitious girlfriend — Mlle Dupont in Paris — for the Russians.

Chiang called on the three and their suboordinates to wage war against the Soviet Russians, Tibetans, Communists, and the Japanese.

The Russians, whose side lost, failed to keep up and despite newer models coming into service, I-16s were outfought by the improved Bf 109s in World War II, while remaining the most common Soviet front-line fighter into 1942.

Various foreign scientific discoveries and inventions ( such as the Wright Brothers ' airplane ) were attributed to Russians in post-war Soviet propaganda.

As in many former Soviet republics, after Kyrgyzstan regained independence in August 1991 many individuals, organizations, and political parties sought to reestablish ( and, to a certain extent, to create from scratch ) a Kyrgyz national cultural identity ; often one that included a backlash against Russians.

He became the third Soviet leader to die in less than three years, and, upon being informed in the middle of the night of his death, US President Ronald Reagan, who was seven months older than Chernenko and just over three years older than his predecessor Andropov, is reported to have remarked " how am I supposed to get any place with the Russians if they keep dying on me?

The new Foreign Minister assured the Soviet Ambassador that Japan would honor the neutrality agreement, even though Germany was urging its Japanese ally to attack the Russians from the east.

Large numbers of Russians, as well as some Ukrainians and Belarussians remained in Latvia after the fall of the Soviet Union.

* Estonia: Defined as a nation state in its 1992 constitution, up until the period of Soviet colonialisation, Estonia was historically a very homogenous state with 88. 2 % of residents being Estonians, 8. 2 % Russians, 1, 5 % Germans and 0. 4 % Jews according to the 1934 census.

During the Cold War era, ethnic Russians dominated Soviet politics and government ; they also controlled local administration.

In the 1920s and 1930s, almost 20, 000 White Russians and Russian Jews fled the newly established Soviet Union and took up residence in Shanghai.

Another explanation for the Eastern European adoption of SECAM, led by the Soviet Union, is that the Russians had extremely long distribution lines between broadcasting stations and transmitters.

The Soviet Union subsequently repopulated Sambia with Russians and Belarusians.

The Soviet press later reported that minutes before boarding the spacecraft Gagarin made a speech: " Dear friends, you who are close to me, and you whom I do not know, fellow Russians, and people of all countries and all continents: in a few minutes a powerful space vehicle will carry me into the distant realm of space.

Only in the 1960s did Vilnius begin to grow again, following an influx of Lithuanian and Polish population from neighbouring regions and well as from other areas of the Soviet Union ( particularly Russians and Belarusians ).

Powell further claimed that even if nuclear weapons had not existed, the Russians would still not have invaded Western Europe: " What has prevented that from happening was ... the fact that the Soviet Union knew ... that such an action on its part would have led to a third world war -— a long war, bitterly fought, a war which in the end the Soviet Union would have been likely to lose on the same basis and in the same way as the corresponding war was lost by Napoleon, by the Emperor Wilhelm and by Adolf Hitler.

After the WWII, the population of East Prussia was replaced by the Soviet one, mainly by Russians.

The historical records show that the Treblinka camp guards were of varied ethnic groups and nationalities, comprising not only Germans ( Volksdeutsche ) but also a number of Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Moldovans, Latvians, and representatives of Soviet Central Asia ( including a number of collaborating Soviet prisoners of war ).

Under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, ethnic Russians were sent to colonize captured territory such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, while local languages, religions and customs were banned or suppressed.

Russians also dominated the Soviet military and the Communist Party ( CPSU ).

Some researchers assert that most Russians today have come to regret the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union various new religious movements have sprung up and gathered a following among ethnic Russians.