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* December 6 – Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792: The Ottoman fortress of Özi falls to the Russians after a prolonged siege and a murderous storm with a temperature of-23 degrees C.
The Russians temporarily took over in 1773 and again in 1828, following the prolonged Siege of Varna, returning it to the Ottomans two years later after the medieval fortress was razed.
Then the Russians laid prolonged sieges to three key Ottoman citadels in present-day Bulgaria — Shumla, Varna, and Silistra.
The Russians used the respite to begin strengthening the defenses on 203 Meter Hill yet further, while Nogi began a prolonged artillery bombardment of the town and those parts of the harbor within range of his guns.

Russians and history
Due to Hong Kong's nearly 150-year colonial history that saw the stationing of English, Indians and Russians among other ethnic groups as civil servants or traders.
According to Mehnert, the Soviets attempt to control academic historiography ( the writing of history by academic historians ) to promote ideological and ethno-racial imperialism by Russians.
In addition, Stalin stated regarding history that " because the Russians had greatly sinned against Poland ", " the Soviet government was those sins.
At 265 pages, it is a relatively brief history of the anarchist movement, covering its philosophical beginnings in Europe with William Godwin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the further development by the Russians Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin and its influence on the working class movements of the 19th and 20th centuries mainly in Europe and Russia, but also in the United States.
He writes " Russians and Ukrainians, two peoples with a long history of looking to the Bible for clues to their past and future.
A milestone in the history of the region was the arrival of the Russians in the 16th and 17th centuries, contemporaneous and in many regards analogous to the European colonization of the Americas.
Tribes and peoples generally have a longer continuous history than their countries ; tribal names often imply a descent from a single ancestor, such as Rus as the legendary ancestor of the Russians.
In the 1950s, research on history and of Bessarabia was a banned subject in Romania, as the Romanian Communist Party tried to emphasise the links between the Romanians and Russians, the annexation being considered just a proof of Soviet Union's internationalism.
His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey ( 1990 ; new edition, 2007 ), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin ( 1994 ; new edition, 2003 ), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels ( 1997 ), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa ( 1998 ; new edition, 2006 ), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II.
* Deluge ( history ), combined Swedish and Russians invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1654-1667 )
The significance of this event is found in the fact that, for the very first time in Japan's history, a long-term project was established with a European power comprising Russians and Japanese under a same cause.
* The colonisation history of Western Siberia by Russians since 17th-18th centuries was reflected in various names which had river at different times.
His lectures on Polish history created great enthusiasm, as shown in some lines addressed to him by Adam Mickiewicz that led to Lelewel's removal by the Russians in 1824.
One of them considers the Finns and the Russians have been the arch-enemy throughout history.
Wars with Tartars and Mongols were a major aspect of Medieval Russian history, but the Russians gained the upper hand long before the 19th Century, and no Tartar Khan at the time of writing was in a position to act as Feofar is described as doing ; depicting late 19th Century Tartars as able to face Russians on anything resembling equal terms is a manifest anachronism.
Majority-Eastern Orthodox groups other than Romanians included sizeable communities of Greeks ( a highly influential and omnipresent one for much of the city's history, it was mentioned in Bucharest as early as 1561 and, after reaching its peak in the 18th century, entered a process of regression ), Aromanians ( first attested in 1623, but probably counted among the Greeks by previous testimonials ), Serbs and Bulgarians, alongside other South Slavs ( Bulgarians and Serbs were confounded in common reference until the 19th century ; at the same time, sources more readily distinguished between groups of traders from Gabrovo, Chiprovtsi, or Razgrad ; an important group of Bulgarians retreated with the Russians at the close of the war of 1828-1829, and settled in Bucharest as gardners and milkmen ), as well as Arab parishioners of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, Russians ( see also Bucharest Russian Church ), and most of the Albanians present.
Polish professors and administrative assistants were increasingly fired and replaced by Ukrainians or Russians, specializing in Marxism, Leninism, political economics, as well as Ukrainian and Soviet literature, history and geography.
In a preface, Mickiewicz briefly outlines the history of the region, describing the interactions among the Lithuanians, Prussians, Poles, and Russians.
Honestly like the Russians, who added one Asiatic state after another to the Tsar's empire without trumpeting promises of peace throughout the world before. For opportunistic reasons we have falsified history, we have written the words " German loyalty ", " German truth ", " the German temperament " on every street corner and have hidden our carefully laid plans for war behind them. In this sense, however, we have always remained true to ourselves, following in the footsteps of Frederick the Great who, through his troops were already on the march to Silesia, wrote to the Empress Maria Theresa that " he valued peace above all things and would not dream of beginning a war ".
Yet, in Atlanta, they fielded the deepest U. S. team in history and upstaged both the Russians and the Romanians, then reigning as World Champions for the second time.

Russians and pointed
Dr Simon Kraiz, an expert on Eastern European Jewry at the University of Haifa, pointed out that no Khazar writings have been found: " We know a lot about them, and yet we know almost nothing: Jews wrote about them, and so did Russians, Georgians, and Armenians, to name a few.
The nationalists pointed to the reign of fear spread by Chechen gangsters and the many violent acts committed against ethnic Russians, exacerbated by corrupt officials ' in the pockets ' of the Chechens, as their motivation.

Russians and military
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 Mongols left their impact on the Russians in such areas as military tactics and transportation.
Although critical of the Tsar, General Kornilov felt that Russia, as part of the Triple Entente, was committed to continue the war against the Central Powers, and he shared the widespread belief of some Russians that after the February Revolution the country was descending into anarchy and that military defeat would be disastrous for Russia.
Russians also dominated the Soviet military and the Communist Party ( CPSU ).
The Russians founded the military outpost of Khabarovka (), named after a Russian explorer Yerofey Khabarov.
The mass executions of Russians, Ukrainians, Jews and others, as well as what he believed was an already apparent deficiency in military leadership ( Hitler had assumed the role of supreme commander in late 1941 after firing Hoepner and others ), finally convinced Stauffenberg in 1942 to join with resistance groups within the Wehrmacht, the only force that had a chance to overcome Hitler's Gestapo, SD, and SS.
After the Russians were pushed out of Galicia, Rzeszów remained outside of the area of military activities.
Failing to convince the Whittakers that his group are Norwegians ( all of the Russians are conspicuously dressed in sinister all-black clothing ), Rozanov draws a gun and promises no harm if the family provides information about military on the island ( none ) and police force ( small ), and gives them keys to their car.
Under Vallejo's supervision, the Presidio of Sonoma, or Sonoma Barracks ( part of Spain's Fourth Military District ), was built beside the mission for the army, and he pursued control and order in the region over the native tribes and kept a military eye on the Russians of Fort Ross.
According to this view of the ethnic situation in Ichkeria, the primary cause of Russian emigration was the extensive bombing of Grozny ( where 4 out of 5, or nearly 200, 000 Russians in Chechnya lived before the war ) by the Russian military during the First Chechen War.
Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer has suggested that the aim of the extremist leaders seemed to have been to provoke the Russian government forces " to kill ethnic Russians in Moscow on a large scale ", which happened.
Birger was later claimed to have been responsible for a military campaign against the Novgorod Republic that Russians claim ended in a defeat by Alexander Nevsky during a battle the Russians refer to as Neva Battle in 1240.
As the fortress enabled the control of the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, the Russians forces destroyed all of their equipment and withdrew, leaving Russia with no more military fortifications on the Black Sea.
The Russians wanted to know the military feasibility of invading Western China, including the provinces of Xinjiang and Gansu, in its struggles with Britain for control of Inner Asia known as " The Great Game.
The stories about the Spetsnaz and their allegedly incredible prowess, from the more serious to the highly questionable, have captivated imaginations of the more patriotic Russians, particularly being set against the background of a decay in the Russian military during the Perestroika and the post-Soviet era.
Of military historical interest is that Russians built fortifications here in 1917.
There he was assassinated in Caffa ( Crimea ) by the Genoese, who could not forgive the total waste of a military unit of Genoese crossbowmen who were slaughtered by the Russians.
Charles proved an able military commander, however, quickly forcing the Danes out of the war and then driving back the Russians at Narva, thereby allowing him to focus on the struggle with Augustus.
Before " Molitva russkikh " ( The Prayer of the Russians ) was chosen as the national anthem of Imperial Russia in 1816, various church hymns and military marches were used to honor the country and the Tsars.
He was also depicted in part three of the 2003 BBC TV series Cambridge Spies, where he appears reluctant to continue passing Bletchley Park data to the Russians for fear that the Red Army was heavily penetrated by German intelligence and by Eastern Front military intelligence under General Gehlen ; Anthony Blunt is depicted in the drama as pressuring him with threats to continue.
These steps do not improve Afghanistan's relations with the Indian government, which is already looking with suspicion on some of its military activities ; so much so that in August Mr. Yunus, the secretary of the Afghan legation in London, thought it necessary to send a communication to The Times stating that the number of Afghanistan's aeroplanes was too small to cause any apprehension, and that the Russians engaged in the air service were employed as pilots or mechanics in the same way as any other Europeans.
His reputation among the unpaid and dissenting military took a dive ; and many criticized him for appropriating the entire ransom that the Russians paid for their prisoners from Połonka.
During the war, decryption of Red Army radio messages made it possible to use small Polish military forces efficiently against the Russians and win many individual battles, the most important being the 1920 Battle of Warsaw.

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