The GRU is still a very important part of the Russian Federation's intelligence services, especially since it was never split up like the KGB was.

Important influences on the Anarchist Federation's politics include The Organisational Platform of Libertarian Communists, the Manifesto of Libertarian Communism, Solidarity and the anarchist communist currents within the Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions.

According to the Russian Federation's 1993 constitution, an Ukase is a Presidential decree.

The citations of the Judgement of the Nuremberg Tribunal by the Russian Federation's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in according criminal responsibility ( and thus charges of historical revisionism in Estonia ) has been criticized as inaccurate by the EU Presidency.

He served as an observer to the Russian Federation's first legislative ( 1993 ) and presidential ( 1996 ) elections. He is a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He promised to put an end to the Russian Hockey Federation's history of internal conflict and player boycotts, stating, " You won't see such a mess with the national team that you've seen here before ", and that " You won't see grouchy players here anymore.

The German government subsequently recognized the Russian Federation's claim to be the successor state of the Soviet Union, including the right to maintain troops in Germany until the end of 1994.

According to the Russian Federation's 1993 constitution, an ukaz is a Presidential decree.

Only the Russian Federation's Navy has used a relative handful of liquid-metal cooled reactors in production vessels, specifically the Alfa class submarine, which used lead-bismuth eutectic as a reactor moderator and coolant, but the vast majority of Russian nuclear-powered boats and ships use light water reactors exclusively.

The Russian women's national ice hockey team represents Russia at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships.

It is a joint venture between Republic of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation ( DRDO ) and Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroeyenia who have together formed BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited.

There being no objection, the Russian Federation took the USSR's place, with Boris Yeltsin personally taking the Russian Federation's seat at the January 31, 1992 Security Council meeting.

In 1719, Tsar Peter I the Great founded the earliest version of what is now known as the Russian Federation's State Diamond Fund.

* Russian Federation's General Staff Academy ( formerly the Soviet General Staff Academy

* Atomenergoexport, a predecessor of Atomstroyexport, the Russian Federation's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly

Preliminary results of an analysis of the earth crust model examined by the Arctic-2007 expedition, obtained on 20 September, have confirmed that the crust structure of the Lomonosov Ridge corresponds to the world analogues of the continental crust, and it is therefore part of the Russian Federation's adjacent continental shelf.

Since 2004, the country's president – rather than its electorate – decides who should be the governors of the Russian Federation's constituent parts.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (, ; – 11 June 1970 ) was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.

Besides the state owned airline Cubana ( Cubana de Aviación ), the two other major Cuban airlines are Aero Caribbean and Aerogaviota, both of whom operate modern European and Russian aircraft.

However, even here the value of cavalry was overrated and the maintenance of large mounted formations at the front by the Russian Army put a major strain on the railway system, to little strategic advantage.

The last major cavalry battle was the Battle of Komarów in 1920, between Poland and the Russian Bolsheviks.

The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.

The major reasons for rising political tensions among the Finns were the autocratic rule of the Russian Tsar and the undemocratic class system of the estates in the Grand Duchy.

In order to gain weapons and to secure a major power base in the Vaasa-Seinäjoki area the Whites continued disarmament of Russian garrisons, initiated locally in western and eastern Finland during 21 – 23 January, followed by a major operation in Ostrobothnia during the early hours of 28 January.

The Red Finns did not accept total alliance with the Bolsheviks ; major disputes continued over demarcation of the border between Red Finland and Soviet Russia, and over the civil rights of Russian citizens in Finland.

The Russian guitar is traditionally tuned to open G major.

Today's major industrial cities of the Russian Arctic, such as Norilsk, Vorkuta, and Magadan, were originally camps built by prisoners and run by ex-prisoners.

A major factor in the ascendancy of Moscow was the cooperation of its rulers with the Mongol overlords, who granted them the title of Grand Prince of Moscow and made them agents for collecting the Tatar tribute from the Russian principalities.

Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth with actions including the support of the Targowica Confederation, although the cost of her campaigns, on top of the oppressive social system that required lords ' serfs to spend almost all of their time laboring on the lords ' land, provoked a major peasant uprising in 1773, after Catherine legalized the selling of serfs separate from land.

The disastrous performance of the Russian armed forces in the Russo-Japanese War was a major blow to the Russian State

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Commedia dell ' arte performers improvised based on a broad outline in the streets of Italy and in the 1890s theatrical theorists and directors such as Russian, Konstantin Stanislavski and the French, Jacques Copeau, founders of two major streams of acting theory, both heavily utilised improvisation in acting training and rehearsal.

That endeavor left the newly independent Republic of Kazakhstan a mixed legacy: a population that includes nearly as many Russians as Kazakhs ; the presence of a dominating class of Russian technocrats, who are necessary to economic progress but ethnically unassimilated ; and a well-developed energy industry, based mainly on coal and oil, whose efficiency is inhibited by major infrastructural deficiencies.

A kremlin (, fortress ; same root as in kremen (, flint )) is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities.

He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War ( 1918 – 20 ).

Libertarian socialists played a major role in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

Since the early Middle Ages, the trade in furs was of great economic importance for northern and eastern European nations with large native populations of fur-bearing mustelids, and was a major economic impetus behind Russian expansion into Siberia and French and English expansion in North America.

The discovery of large populations in the North Pacific was the major economic driving force behind Russian expansion into Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, as well as a cause for conflict with Japan and foreign hunters in the Kuril Islands.

The major railroad junctions are Chişinău, Bender, Ungheni, Ocniţa ( Oknitsa, in Russian ), Bălţi, and Basarabeasca ( Bessarabka, in Russian ).

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

Continued Russian financial difficulties have hurt the trade sector especially, but have been offset by international aid, domestic restructuring and foreign direct investment.

These developments also encouraged Finnish nationalism and cultural unity through the birth of the Fennoman movement, which bound the Finns to the domestic governmental system and led to the idea that the Finnish Grand Duchy was an increasingly autonomous part of the Russian Empire.

The immediate reason for the collapse of the Russian Empire was a domestic crisis precipitated by military defeats in the war against Germany and by war-weariness among the Russian people.

Not only is Kobyla Russian for " mare ", some of his relatives also had as nicknames the terms for horses and other domestic animals, thus suggesting descent from one of the royal equerries.

South Korea plans the first domestic launch of a satellite in 2008, with Russian assistance.

Recently at least two distilleries in the traditionally brandy-producing Caucasus region announced their plans to enter the Russian domestic market with whiskies.

Repnin also demanded religious freedom for the Protestant and Orthodox Christians, and the resulting reaction among some of Poland's Roman Catholics, as well as the deep resentment of Russian intervention in the Commonwealth's domestic affairs, led to the War of the Confederation of Bar from 1768 – 1772, where the Poles tried to expel Russian forces from Commonwealth territory.

The Russian Federation was the largest of the fifteen republics that made up the Soviet Union, accounting for over 60 % of the gross domestic product ( GDP ) and over 50 % of the Soviet population.

Meanwhile, the opposition Communist Party of the Russian Federation had already gained ground in parliamentary voting on December 17, 1995, and its candidate, Gennady Zyuganov, had a strong grassroots organization, especially in the rural areas and small towns, and appealed effectively to memories of the old days of Soviet prestige on the international stage and the socialist domestic order.

Omsk is served by the Tsentralny Airport, which offers access to domestic and international ( primarily, German and Kazakh ) destinations, making the city an important aviation hub for Siberia and the Russian Far East.

* Zhiguli ( car brand ), the name given to Lada cars, built by AvtoVAZ, in the domestic ( Russian ) market.

Due to the desperate shortage of arms and the shortcomings of a still-developing domestic industry, the Russian government ordered 1. 5 million M1891 infantry rifles from Remington Arms and another 1. 8 million from New England Westinghouse in the United States.

During the early 1970s, a solid white Russian Blue ( called the Russian White ) was created by the Australian breeder, Mavis Jones, through the crossing of a Russian Blue with a domestic white cat.

BK ( БК ) is a Russian abbreviation which stands for -- domestic ( or home ) computer.

At that time, the RKKA had only several dozen outdated Mk. V, Mk. A and Renault FT-17 tanks, captured during the Russian Civil War, together with various armoured cars and obsolescent domestic MS-1 ( T-18 ) light infantry tanks.

Ufa International Airport has international flights to UAE, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, as well as domestic flights to many Russian cities and towns.

Others accept the Russian pledge as sincere, and believe that Islamist movements of all stripes will eventually come to accommodation with domestic secular forces, and Islam as a global anti-corruption, anti-colonialism, and anti-racism movement, less focused on Zionism and Palestine.

The Reuter concession was met with not only domestic outrage in the form of local protests but the Russian government was also hostile towards the concession as well.

After the régime of Mao Zedong, the PRC – USSR ideological schism became useless domestic politics, but useful geopolitics wherein the Russian and Chinese hegemonies conflicted in the pursuit of national interests.