The most controversial change was the scene where the Russian freighter officer Colonel Kashirin valiantly attempts to stop the launch of a nuclear weapon.

During the 1990s, the Russian Stechkin APS was once again put into service, as a weapon for VIP bodyguards and for anti-terrorist hostage rescue teams that needed the capability for full automatic fire in emergencies.

It was initially disputed by outside sources whether or not North Korea has nuclear weapons, and many Russian sources denied that North Korea has the technology necessary to build a nuclear weapon.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called the 2006 Freedom in the World report " prefabricated ", stating that the human rights issues have been turned into a political weapon in particular by the United States.

* January 31 – WWI: Germany's first large-scale use of poison gas as a weapon occurs when 18, 000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas are fired on the Imperial Russian Army on the Rawka River west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov ; however, freezing temperatures prevent it being effective.

The Russian Main Artillery Administration undertook the task of producing a magazine-fed, multi-round weapon in 1882.

* Model 1891 Infantry Rifle (): The primary weapon of Russian and Red Army infantry from 1891 to 1930.

His disappointments included failure to obtain Russian ratification of the START II treaty ; slowness in securing increases in the budget for weapon systems modernization ; and the faulty perceptions of the Gulf War illness syndrome held by some of the media and much of the public.

However, in 2004, Bruce Blair, president of the Center for Defense Information stated: " I wouldn't be at all surprised if nuclear weapons are used over the next 15 or 20 years, first and foremost by a terrorist group that gets its hands on a Russian nuclear weapon or a Pakistani nuclear weapon ".

The RDU forces attract strong international condemnation and practically dissolve after they detonate a nuclear weapon during a battle north of Moscow between the ultranationalists and a joint force of US and allied Russian combat units.

There were other automatic weapon designs with similar firepower, such as the French Darne, the Hungarian-Gebauer single-barreled tank MGs, the Russian 7. 62mm ShKAS aircraft gun and the British Vickers K machine gun.

The lack of advanced military equipment on both sides of the front made the cavalry a decisive weapon in breaking the enemy lines and encircling the Russian units.

Facing deadly air raids from Russian MIG jets piloted by Algerian and Egyptian mercenaries, Ojukwu's Biafra and University scientists created " Ogbunigwe ," what Americans today would call a weapon of mass destruction.

According to Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian Foreign Intelligence Service ( SVR ) agent in London was preparing to assassinate Berezovsky with a binary weapon in September 2003.

Russian weapon designers have reported ( 1993 ) that red mercury was the Soviet codename for Lithium-6, which has an affinity for mercury and tends to acquire a red colour due to mercuric impurities during its separation process.

* Oslop-a two-handed, very heavy, often iron-shod, Russian club that was used as the cheapest and the most readily available infantry weapon.

If the battery runs low, the weapon has a transmitter that sends a coded message — either by satellite or directly to a GRU post at a Russian embassy or consulate .” According to Lunev, the number of " missing " nuclear devices ( as found by General Lebed ) " is almost identical to the number of strategic targets upon which those bombs would be used.

In the Balkans, Russian Campaign and other theatres of war the weapon achieved slightly better results.

The Soviet Union and later Russian Federation experimented with binary weapons capable of mixing and distributing two agents that would work together in worsening the effects of the weapon, an example of which would be the combination of nerve agents with blister agents.

The R3 was never intended to survive a direct hit from a nuclear weapon but was designed to withstand a near miss from Russian bombing with 2, 200 lb armour-piercing high explosive bombs dropped from 35, 000 feet.

This heavier missile system will have a much greater range, and will surely be the primary beyond visual range ( BVR ) air-to-air weapon in upcoming fifth generation Russian frontline fighters.

The ZK-383 was originally designed to be a squad automatic weapon much like the British Bren and Russian DP28, despite it shooting a pistol round and not a full sized rifle cartridge.

* 3-methylfentanyl, extremely potent opioid, allegedly used as a chemical weapon by the Russian military in the Moscow theater hostage crisis

This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''

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.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

The Russian experimenters claim that only a small fraction of the impulse from the sensors is caused by the incident momentum with the remainder being momentum of ejected material from the sensor.

There is a difference in the experimental arrangement, in that the U.S. microphones are attached directly to the vehicle skin while the Russian instruments are isolated from the skin.

A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.

Speaking with `` great earnestness '', he said: `` For the Russian people, the question of Poland is not only a question of honor but also a question of security.

the conflict is not Boris versus Grigori or Shuiski or even the ghost of the murdered child, but Boris versus the Russian people.

The Soviet Embassy is popularly regarded as Russian espionage headquarters.

`` This is Russian money '', said Mervin Griffith-Jones for the attorney general's office.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

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

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

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 ".

) The Russian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book.

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981 ) is a Russian retired professional tennis player.

A variation of a White Russian made with skim milk is known as an Anna Kournikova.

A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.