Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

Russia turned its attention eastward to Asia and remained largely inactive in European politics for the next 25 years.

Today China, India, South Korea, Japan and Russia play important roles in world economics and politics. China today is second largest economy of the world and fastest growing economy.

Between the abolition of serfdom and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the Stolypin reforms, the constitution of 1906 and State Duma introduced notable changes to the economy and politics of Russia, but the tsars were still not willing to relinquish autocratic rule, or share their power.

He did manage to comment substantially on contemporary politics, particularly in Germany and Russia.

The " wild Tolstoys ", as they were known in the high society of Imperial Russia, have left a lasting legacy in Russian politics, military history, literature, and fine arts.

From 1918 to 1921, Kandinsky dealt with the cultural politics of Russia and collaborated in art education and museum reform.

Its semi-democratic government system was not efficient enough to rival the neighbouring monarchies of Prussia, Russia and Austria who divided the Commonwealth territories among them, changing the landscape of Central European politics for the next hundred years.

The French invasion of Russia of 1812 was a turning point, which reduced the French and allied invasion forces ( the Grande Armée ) to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics, as it dramatically weakened the previously dominant French position on the continent.

The treaty does give Russia the right to intervene in Ottoman politics to protect its Christian subjects.

As a result, Herberstein was able to produce the first detailed eyewitness ethnography of Russia, encyclopedic in its scope, providing an accurate ( very accurate for the time ) view of trade, religion, customs, politics, history, even a theory of Russian political culture.

The war ended with a defeat for Sweden, leaving Russia as the new major power in the Baltic Sea and an important new player in European politics.

A notable example of pipeline politics occurred at the beginning of the year 2009, wherein a dispute between Russia and Ukraine ostensibly over pricing led to a major political crisis.

( an analysis of the state of democratic transition in Russia by Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., a leading specialist in Russian politics published in the Journal of Democracy )

The existence of the centuries-old Serb or Serbian diaspora in countries such as Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine, is the result of historical circumstances – the migrations to the North and the East, due to the Turkish conquests of the Balkans and as a result of politics, especially when the Communist Party came into power, but even more when the communist state of Yugoslavia collapsed into inter-ethnic conflict, resulting in mass expulsions of people as refugees of war.

Russia needed this ice-free port to achieve world power status as it was tired of being blocked by the balance of power politics in Europe ( The Ottoman Empire and its allies had repeatedly frustrated Russian power fruition ).

St Antony's is the most international of the seven all-graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relations, economics, politics, and history of particular parts of the world — Europe, Russia and the former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, South and South East Asia.

By the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in 1772, the adjoining countries of Russia, Prussia and Austria annexed large swaths of Polish-Lithuanian territory and acquired influence over the internal politics of the reduced Poland and Lithuania.

Despite his sentiments on ethnic politics in Russia, Rubinstein returned there occasionally to visit friends and family.

Along with political changes in Russia politics changed, the government took back some of the privileges granted, economic conditions grew poor, and there were a series of famines.

Though Finland is not currently pursuing any measures to reclaim Karelian lands ceded to Russia, the " Karelian Question " is still a topic present in Finnish politics, but it has never been discussed officially.

However, like in Russia, " strongman politics " played a large role in internal decision-making in these states in the 20th century: Politburos under Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were dysfunctional and largely decorative, allowing the top leaders to dictate party policy and the fate of the other leaders.

Once again it stood in the limelight of “ big politics ” when Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Emperor Francis I of Austria, and King Frederick William III of Prussia met in Speyer at the allied headquarters on 27 June 1815.

With the success of the three-country intervention, Russia emerged as another major power in East Asia, replacing the Qing Dynasty as the entity that the Joseon court's many government officials advocated close ties with to prevent more Japanese meddling in Korean politics.

Such cooperative behaviors have sometimes been seen as arguments for left-wing politics such by the Russian zoologist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin in his 1902 book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution and Peter Singer in his book A Darwinian Left.

His adventurous life, his forcible character, the position of his state as a barrier between the Indian and the Russian empires, and the skill with which he held the balance in dealing with them, combined to make him a prominent figure in contemporary Asian politics and will mark his reign as an epoch in the history of Afghanistan.

The paper avoided factional politics and proved popular with Russian industrial workers.

Also aggravating Russian internal politics was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ( March 1918 ).

However, while Rousseau's initial impact encouraged bloody revolutions against traditional politics, including both the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution, his own conclusions about the best forms of community seem to have been remarkably classical, in favor of city-states such as Geneva, and rural living.

He became interested in politics, and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1901.

Zhou's diaries and letters from his time in Tokyo show a deep interest in politics and current events, in particular, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Bolsheviks ' new policies.

Thus the transitional period in post-Soviet Russian politics came to an end.

Examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards, and while Russian preserves much of East Slavonic grammar and a Common Slavonic word base, modern Russian exhibits a large stock of borrowed international vocabulary for politics, science, and technology.

Towards the second half of the 19th century Van began to play an increased role in the politics of the Ottoman Empire due to its location near the borders of the Persian, Russian and Ottoman Empire, as well as its proximity to Mosul.

To this end, it uses politico-military tools such as " maskirovka " ( Russian: " маскировка " camouflage ), or strategic politico-military deception, to pre-emptively and deniably prepare the battlespace for the initiation of hostilities, as well as the liberal use of special operations forces ( Spetznaz ), the inclusion of intelligence gathering personnel as combatants ( for example, the former KGB had military ranks, where Western intelligence agencies did not ), and use of politics as warfare by other means, such as through disinformation, psychological operations, and propaganda.

Feodor was a simple minded man who took little interest in politics, and was never considered a candidate for the Russian throne until the death of his elder brother Ivan Ivanovich.

The witness Reverend Filipp, allegedly kidnapped by Zakayev in 1996, also refuted his supposed testimony and even denounced Russian authorities for " implicating the Church in politics ".

The modern day Russian Geopolitcs is centered on Eurasianist tradition and is highly interlinked with politics.

“ It was only the politics of Gorbatschow which allowed the opening of the Russian archives.

At first, many officers were encouraged by Tsar Alexander's early liberal reformation of Russian society and politics.

Witte continued in Russian politics as a member of the State Council but never again obtained an administrative role in the government.

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.