There are several places that claim to be the geographic center of Asia, for example Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva in the Russian Federation, and a village north of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region of China.

The northwestern territory was part of the gateway and buffer zone ( with Estonia ) to and from the imperial Russian capital Petrograd ( Saint Petersburg ), via the Gulf of Finland towards the Kronstadt naval base and the Karelian Isthmus.

In 1925, the autonomous republic's original capital, Orenburg possibly from Horn -( meaning corner ) and Burg-( meaning Castle ), was reincorporated into Russian territory.

After returning to the capital, Trotsky and Parvus took over the newspaper Russian Gazette and increased its circulation to 500, 000.

Euler arrived in the Russian capital on 17 May 1727.

In the course of developing the Russian application of Marxism, the pamphlet Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1916 ) presented Lenin ’ s analysis of an economic development predicted by Karl Marx: that capitalism would become a global financial system, wherein advanced industrial countries export financial capital to their colonial countries, to finance the exploitation of their natural resources and the labour of the native populations.

Soviet constitutionalism was the collective government form of the Russian dictatorship of the proletariat, the opposite of the government form of the dictatorship of capital ( privately-owned means of production ) practised in bourgeois democracies.

* Bank of New York: US $ 7 billion of Russian capital flight laundered through accounts controlled by bank executives, late 1990s

* Nauru: US $ 70 billion of Russian capital flight laundered through unregulated Nauru offshore shell banks, late 1990s

The Russian Revolution of October 1917 brought about the definitive ideological division between Communists as denoted with a capital " С " on the one hand and other communist and socialist trends such as anarcho-communists and social democrats, on the other.

After the third partition of April 1795, Vilnius was annexed by the Russian Empire and became the capital of the Vilna Governorate.

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Russian capital until 1918.

Even when the French were in occupation of the Russian capital Moscow, Russian forces in the south were not recalled but continued their offensive against Persia, culminating in Pyotr Kotlyarevsky's victories at Aslanduz and Lenkoran, in 1812 and 1813 respectively.

* July 31 – Russo-Polish War ( 1654 – 1667 ): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for 6 years.

She hated bloodshed and conflict and went to great lengths to alter the Russian system of punishment, even outlawing capital punishment.

Then Napoleon turned north to confront the remainder of the Russian army and to try to capture the temporary Prussian capital at Königsberg.

This prevented the French march on the Russian capital, Saint Petersburg ; the fate of the invasion was to be decided in Moscow, where Napoleon himself led his forces.

* Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital

After Finland became part of the Russian Empire ( 1809 ), and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland was moved to Helsinki ( 1812 ), Turku continued to be the most populous city in Finland, until the end of the 1840s.

Lewenhaupt was to bring a fresh supply of ammunition and food to support the Swedish army in a proposed march on the Russian capital of Moscow.

Russian victories at Erastfer and Nöteborg ( Shlisselburg ) provided access to Ingria in 1703, and here Peter began building his new capital, Saint Petersburg.

A smaller Russian force advanced on the Swedish capital, but was stopped at the battle of Stäket on August 13.

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.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.

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.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

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.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

At the State Department, hard-bitten Russian experts complained that the Capitol was out of its wits.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.