In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.

In September 2002, the Armenian government handed over Armenia ’ s largest cement factory to the Russian ITERA gas exporter in payment for its $ 10 million debt for past gas deliveries.

On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.

Critics of the Kocharian government say that the Armenian administration never considered alternative ways of settling the Russian debts.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

As of 2012, both the Kurile Ainu and Kurile Kamchadal ethnic groups lack the fishing and hunting rights which the Russian government grants to the indigenous tribal communities of the far north.

In 1893, Mortimer Durand was deputed to Kabul by the government of British India for this purpose of settling an exchange of territory required by the demarcation of the boundary between northeastern Afghanistan and the Russian possessions, and in order to discuss with Amir Abdur Rahman Khan other pending questions.

The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus ( Russian: Министерство обороны Республики Беларусь, Belarusian: Мiнiстэрства абароны Рэспублікі Беларусь ) is the government organization that is charged with the duties of raising and maintaining the Armed Forces of Belarus.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

Others in the government and some on the Black Hand Executive Council were not as confident of Russian aid.

His forecast of the form of government suitable to the modern world may be seen as prophetic: the largely ceremonial offices of president in some modern parliamentary democracies in Europe and e. g. Israel can be perceived as elected or appointed versions of Hegel's constitutional monarch ; the Russian and French presidents, with their stronger powers, may also be regarded in Hegelian terms as wielding powers suitable to the embodiment of the national will.

Consisting of British, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, US and Austrian troops, the alliance defeated the Boxers and demanded further concessions from the Qing government.

There, with the active aid of the Russian government, he at length got access to the remainder of the precious Sinaitic codex, and persuaded the monks to present it to Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at whose cost it was published in 1862 ( in four folio volumes ).

During his trip in Russia, Chiang met Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders, but quickly came to the conclusion that the Russian model of government was not suitable for China.

* Russian Enlightenment, a period in the eighteenth century in which the government in Russia began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences

Similarly, it was presented to various government officials, military and diplomatic, in the United States and in Europe ( 1919 – 1920 ), in opposition to the Russian Revolution, and to influence the terms of the peace settlement which resulted in the Treaty of Versailles.

Workers demanded food and a complete shifting of legislative power from the Russian Provisional Government | Russian government to the Parliament of Finland | Finnish parliament.

Unfortunately, the city is faced with a greater threat when the countdown ends and the Russian missile is launched from the satellite, leaving the Japanese government and people helpless to stop it.

The Russian government denied accusations of being involved or of interfering in the situation.

Kuwait also has received United States, Russian, and Egyptian armored vehicles.

The best known examples of an anarchist communist society, established around the ideas as they exist today, that received worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon, are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution.

Although not instantly received into the group, Diaghilev was aided by Benois in developing his knowledge of Russian and Western art.

He was rector of the university from 1875 until 1878, when he retired as Emeritus Professor and received the title of verkligt statsråd ( Russian: действительный статский советник ; literally " state councillor ", a Russian honorary title ).

* June 28 – Catherine the Great is received into the Russian Orthodox Church.

Dzerzhinsky received his school diploma that was stating following, " Dzerzhinsky Feliks who is 18 years of age, of catholic faith, along with a satisfactory attention and satisfactory diligence showed following successes in sciences, namely: Divine law-" good "; Logic, Latin, Algebra, Geometry, Mathematical geography, Physics, History ( of Russia ), French-" satisfactory "; Russian and Greek-" unsatisfactory ".

The Swedish forces fought off heavy Russian attacks against the wagon fort and the attackers received heavy losses before withdrawing for the day.

With this title he received a golden badge of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( the Sigma letter ).

In April 2006 Tomsk received international media attention as the venue of a major summit on economic cooperation, held in the city between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Following family tradition he received a commission with the Preobrazhensky Regiment, the foremost regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard.

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm ( Russian И ́ горь Евге ́ ньевич Тамм ; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971 ) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation.

Since 1947, Afghanistan had been under the influence of the Russian government and received large amounts of aid, economical assistance, military equipment training and military hardware from the Soviet Union.

The Russian Provisional Government was installed immediately following the fall of the Tsar by the Provisional Committee of the State Duma in early March 1917 and received conditional support of the Mensheviks.

Sydnor pointed out that Hitler had received an SS report in November 1942 which contained a mention of 363, 211 Russian Jews executed by the Einsatzgruppen between August – November 1942.

The region received its first influx of Russian settlers in the mid-seventeenth century.

Taking into consideration that Nagant was one of the few producers not engaged by competitive governments and generally eager to cooperate and share experience and technologies, the Commission paid him a sum of 200, 000 Russian roubles, equal to the premium that Mosin received as the winner.

In Russia, the Choir performed in the 5th International Festival Arts Square and was received enthusiastically by their Russian audiences.

During World War II, Belle Valley soldier Harry Torhan who was born to Russian immigrant coal mining parents received the Silver Star and Purple Heart for evacuating four wounded soldiers while under mortar and small arms fire during the Battle of the Bulge.

About 700 surviving hostages were poisoned by gas, and some of them received injuries leading to disabilities of the second and third class ( by the Russian / ex-Soviet disability classification system ; indicate medium-and maximum-severity and debilitation ).

Russian officials said Chechen militants received financing from groups based in Turkey and that they intercepted telephone calls from the captors to unidentified embassies in Moscow, as well as to Turkey and unidentified Arab states.

The French Empire, the United States, and the Russian Empire received requests from Britain to form an alliance.

In 1328 Ivan Kalita received the approval of khan Muhammad Ozbeg to become the Grand Prince of Vladimir with the right to collect taxes from all Russian lands.

Paul ’ s drastic response was to seize all British vessels in Russian ports, send their crews to detention camps and take British traders hostage until he received satisfaction.

However, the Russian Army had not received enough reinforcements, and it was too risky to cling to Moscow at all cost.