Its banner was again picked up by the Avar Imam Shamil, who fought against the Russians from 1834 until 1859.

In 1859, the Russians had finished defeating Imam Shamil in the eastern Caucasus, and turned their attention westward.

When two Duma delegates, Grigori Borisovich Iollos ( Poltava province ) and Mikhail Herzenstein ( b. 1859, d. 1906 in Terijoki ), both from the Constitutional Democratic Party, were assassinated by the Black Hundreds terrorists, the organ of Black Hundreds Russkoe Znamya declared openly that " Real Russians assassinated Herzenstein and Iollos with knowledge of officials, and expresses regret that only two Jews perished in crusade against revolutionaries.

Hopes that a Giray from the Caucasus would return to liberate Crimea continued until the very conquest of North Caucasus by the Russians in 1859.

Imam Shamil, leader of the Chechen and Daghestani tribes, made his last stand against the Russians at Gunib, where he gave himself up to the Russian commander, Prince Alexander Baryatinsky, on August 25, 1859.

One Western diplomat, quoted by a British newspaper, offered an opinion on the state of negotiations: " I wouldn ’ t say it was game, set and match to the Russians but it is game and set ".

The price of five million USD offered for each tank ensured a lack of suspicion on the part of the Russians.

The Russian government under President Vladimir Putin repealed a law which had banned the import of used nuclear fuel, which makes it possible for Russians to offer a reprocessing service for clients outside Russia ( similar to that offered by BNFL. PUREX chemistry The current method of choice is to use the PUREX liquid-liquid extraction process which uses a tributyl phosphate hydrocarbon mixture to extract both uranium and plutonium from nitric acid.

After Greek independence, Governor Capodistrias requisitioned the facilities for use of the Greek war navy, and offered the Russians an alternative location in a nearby cove.

After a heavy Soviet offensive overran the last emergency airstrip in Stalingrad on 25 January, the Russians again offered Paulus a chance to surrender.

Realizing that the Chukchi could not easily be subjugated by military means, the Russians changed tactics and offered the Chukchi citizenship in the Russian Emprire.

Also in 1841, the Russians at Fort Ross offered to sell the post to Vallejo.

Copies numbered 145 and 974 of the SKM were retained by the Russians while was dispatched from Scapa Flow to Alexandrovosk in order to collect the copy offered to the British.

On 5 November 1854, Brevet Major Russell offered to dislodge a party of Russians from the Sandbag Battery if anyone would follow him.

He fraternized in Reval with the Russians and got on friendly terms with tsar Peter, who offered him command of the Russian navy.

At the same time, the Ottomans offered him an alliance against Persia, but Vakhtang preferred to await the arrival of the Russians.

As the Austrians retreated many Slavic soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army simply surrendered and some even offered to fight for the Russians.

Three Russians, Iranov ( Sig Ruman ), Buljanov ( Felix Bressart ) and Kopalsky ( Alexander Granach ), are in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917.

In one episode of Only Fools and Horses, " The Russians Are Coming ," Delboy and Rodney Trotter sell fallout shelter kits and have an attack drill.

The Saudis were trying to buy the more modern S-400, but the Russians reportedly only wanted to sell the older S-300.

Without an Afghan say in the matter, the Joint Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission agreed the Russians would relinquish the farthest territory captured in their advance but retain Panjdeh.

Alexander obtained Mongol protection and assistance in fighting invaders from the west who, hoping to profit from the Russian collapse since the Mongol invasions, tried to grab territory and convert the Russians to Roman Catholicism.

Russians were able to seize Kazakh territory because the khanates were preoccupied by Zunghar Oirats, who in the late 16th century had begun to move into Kazakh territory from the east.

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.

260 Korean musketeers and cannoneers sent by King Hyojong and commanded by Shin Ryu, met Onufriy Stepanov's near the mouth of the Sungari River, killing 270 Russians and driving them out of Manchu territory.

In all of Russia only the Russians inhabit a larger territory.

Despite early success and the capture of the towns of Rastenburg and Gumbinnen, In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1915, the Russians were decisively defeated and forced to retreat, followed by the German Army advancing into Russian territory.

Also in 1856, the USS Massachusetts was sent from Seattle to nearby Port Gamble, where indigenous raiding parties made up of Haida ( from territory claimed by the British ) and Tongass ( from territory claimed by the Russians ) had been attacking and enslaving the Coast Salish people there.

In 1408 Edigu ravaged Russians territory, but was unable to take Moscow.

It eventually ended in a decisive victory for the Russians, who gained new territory, and further eroded Ottoman power.

The Russians claimed all of the former ruler's territory and fought with Afghan troops over the oasis of Panjdeh.

Without any Afghan say in the matter, between 1885 and 1888 the Joint Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission agreed the Russians would relinquish the farthest territory captured in their advance, but retain Panjdeh.

In pushing the Russians back to their homeland, the German army gained a large area of territory from the Russian Empire ( in an area that is today Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania ).

The plan depended on Germany's ability to quickly mobilize troops and invade France before the French could fully mobilize their troops and defend their territory, and then to turn on Russia, seen as the slowest of the three to mobilize, before the Russians were ready.

Some scholars, however, believe that the Torghuts sought uncontested pastures as their territory was being encroached upon by the Russians from the north, the Kazakhs from the south and the Dzungars from the east.

Several influential Russians would propose new terms for the territories, as in 1805 when the Russian explorer Timovski revived the use of " Turkestan " to refer to Middle Asia, and " East Turkestan " to refer to the Tarim Basin east of Middle Asia in southern Xinjiang ; or in 1829, when the Russian sinologist Nikita Bichurin proposed the use of " East Turkestan " to replace " Chinese Turkestan " for the Chinese territory east of Bukhara.

Finland initially regained the lost territory, reaching the Russian side of the border of 1939 and seen by the Russians as indirectly contributing to the Siege of Leningrad ( see Finnish reconquest of the Karelian Isthmus ( 1941 )).

The offensive against Hanover was repeatedly delayed because of Prussia's partial reluctance that the Swedes and the Russians moved troops through Prussian territory.

Spain was driven to establish missions and other outposts in Alta California out of fear that the territory would be claimed by either the English, who not only had colonies on the East Coast of the continent, but had recently conquered Canada, or the Russians whose fur hunters were pressing down from Alaska to the Pacific Northwest's lower reaches.

In 1919 the territory was briefly occupied by the Red Army, which defeated the local self-defense units, but shortly afterwards the Russians were pushed back by the Polish Army.

The Russians emerged the winners of the region after The Great Game, which fixed the current northern border of Afghanistan on the Panj River and established the territory of Russian Pamir around Khorugh.

When the Russians arrived they recognized the Eyak as a distinct culture and described their territory on their maps.