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Soldier dancing practice at Panoramic Museum Volgograd
We will join the Victory Day Parade in Wolgograd and celebrate 9th of May with the locals. We also going to see the war memorials and war cemetery.
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Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It was first inaugurated in the 16 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Though the official inauguration occurred in 1945 the holiday became a non-labour day only in 1965 and only in certain Soviet republics.
In East Germany, 8 May was observed as Liberation Day from 1950 to 1966, and was celebrated again on the 40th anniversary in 1985. In 1975, a Soviet-style Victory Day was celebrated on 9 May. Since 2002, the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has observed a commemoration day known as the Day of Liberation from National Socialism, and the End of the Second World War.
After regaining their independence from the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries now commemorate the end of World War II on 8 May, the Victory in Europe Day.
During the Soviet Union's existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout the USSR and in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it only became a non-labour day in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SSR in 1965. In the Russian SSR a weekday off (usually a Monday) was given if 9 May fell on a Saturday or Sunday.
The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.
In Russia during the 1990s, the 9 May holiday was not celebrated with large Soviet-style mass demonstrations due to the policies of successive Russian governments. Following Vladimir Putin's rise to power, the Russian government began promoting the prestige of the governing regime and history, and national holidays and commemorations became a source of national self-esteem. Victory Day in Russia has increasingly become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2015 around 30 leaders, including those of China and India, attended the 2015 celebration, while Western leaders boycotted the ceremonies because of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
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Eugenia Gortchakova Portrait, documentary film about German-Russian artist, 2010
This film is a self portrait of Eugenia Gortchakova, great Russian-German artist and a friend of mine, who recently passed away.
born in Kirov, Russland;
Painting, Video, Print, Photo
Investigates Time and Communocation theories / Focus: Literature and Philosophy
1967-72 Philology- and 1978-82 Art History-Studies at State-University Moscow
1991-92 Atelier in Paris; 1992 Atelier at Oldenburg
1996 II.Prize of the V. Intern. Print-Biennial of the Diozesan-Museum Katowice,
1994 Prize of the 1.Biennial d‘Alcoj, Spain
1997 Prize at the Intern. Print-Triennail in Cairo
1997 Prize 4.Triennial for Small Print Forms Chamalières
1999 1.Prize of the XXXI. Symposion, Gyor, Hungary
1999 Honorable Mention 12. Intern. Print- Triennial Fredrikstad
2000 Sponsors-Prize V. Intern. Print- Biennial Sapporo, Japan
2006 New York grant of BBK Bremen
2006 Prize of Art-Academy Katowice, Intern. Print Triennail Krakau
2007 Grant Bishkek Art Center, Kyrgyzstan
2008 Diplom „Gold Tamburin“ Filmfestival, Chanty-Mansijsk
2009 Artfestival Mahares, Tunis
2009 Project – Prize, Biennial Novosibirsk
Individual Exhibitions (selected)
2005 Museum Cloppenburg
2005 Gallery Schulok, Iserlohn
2005Museum “Old Sarepta” Volgograd
2006 DAGallery, Berlin
2006 Gallery Salustowicz, Bielefeld
006 M’ARS Gallery, Moscow
2007 Galeria Zejscie Krakow
2007 BWA Olsztyn
2008 Kunstverein Vechta
2008 Gallery Herold, Bremen
2008 DAG, Berlin
2009 Vrubel art museum, Omsk
2010 Galerie Regina, Dortmund
2010 Künstlerhaus Wien
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2001 Markers‘, an outdoor banner project for the 49th Biennial of Venice
2001 „perplex“– 75 Years GEDOK, Bundeskunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn
2002 Intergrafia – World Award Winners Gallery Torun
2002 Markers‘ Project Kassel
2002 „Light in Abstract Painting“, Gallery EL, Elblag, BWA Olsztyn, Nationalmuseum Szcze cin, Polish Center of Sculpture, Oronsko
2003 „Wandering Library“, Ebraic Museum Venice
2003 Symposium-Anniversary-Exhibition Town Museum Gyor;
2003 International Biennial Gyor;
2003 Museum- Biennial, Museum Krasnoyarsk
2003 International Print- Triennial Cracow;
2003 International Triennial „Colour in Print“,Torun
2004 „AUS-SICHTEN“ Statemuseum Cottbus
2004 „Non-conformists Aujourd‘hui“ Museum Cagnes – sur – mer
2004 „Ewige Weite“ Bamberger Dom
2005 „Kunstfrühling“ Towngallery Bremen
2005 Biennale Kaliningrad
2005 „Pols apart Poles together“ Markers‘ V, 51. Biennale Venice
2005 Hercules-Festival, Lenox Gallery, London
2006 Frans-Masareel-Centrum Kasterlee
2006 Museum Herne, Collection Alexander Baier
2006 ANIGMA, Videofestival, Novosibirsk
2006 Intern. Print Triennial Krakau
2007 Portrait, Town-Gallery Bremen
2007 ANIGMA, Videofestival, Novosibirsk
2007 Triennale Krakau at H. Jansen Museum, Oldenburg
2007 „Scharf“ Kubus, Hannover
2007 „Paradies“ Schloss Dornum
2007 Gyeongnam International Art Festival; Korea
2007 Markers‘ VI:“Devine In.Tent“ Venedig; Kassel; New York
2007 14th Tallinn Print Triennial
2007 „Madonna“ Art-Church St. Stephani, Bremen
2007 „Peinlich“(painful), WUK, Vienna
2008 „Wahrheit ist, was uns verbindet“ K.Jaspers Kunst zu philosophieren UNI Oldenburg
2008 SCHARF! Kulturzentrum ZOLLHAUS Leer
2008 Moll Psychoanalytisches Institut Bremen
2008 Himmel und Hölle Kulturkirche Bremen
2008 Urban Jealousy – the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran . Want to support my channel? Buy me a coffee :) buymeacoffee.com/SvetlanaBakushinaArt Thank you!
3D models from photos. Street sculpture. Elista, Kalmykia
3D models from photos. Street sculpture. Elista, Kalmykia
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The Tuskar River runs through the forested Boyeva Dacha Park. North, the Victory Memorial complex celebrates the Russian military with an eternal flame and triumphal arch.
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Global Rivers Art
Hello,
My name is Bernice Davidson. I am a professor of Art at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tennessee, USA. My colleagues and I have been working on a global art exchange aimed at using art to educate people all over the world about the preciousness of our rivers and waterways.
So far we have art work to share from talented artists from three continents. We wish to both expand the art show by including art from all regions of our planet and to make the show available to institutions around the globe. Please read this invitation and contact me if you would like to participate.
Here Is the background:
In the year 1996, I had the job teaching art in an inner city magnet school for music and art. These kids were talented and angry. I decided to bond them with an art project that would get their attention. The school was in close proximity to the Cuyahoga River -- one of the only rivers in the world that turns back on itself, making an almost complete loop.
There is a Burr Oak tree near its shore that is 500 years old, named the Signal Tree, and planted by the Iroquois to let everyone know their canoes had to be portaged 8 miles from that spot. The tree marked a safe passage area where no one was attacked.
The Cuyahoga River was also a place on the Underground Railroad, where hidden slaves passed on barges concealed under hay bales and other goods, to find their freedom where the river meets Lake Erie. In later years, the river burned twice, due to pollutants from the iron industry in Cleveland. At the time of our project, it was still heavily polluted.
These high school students were so captivated by the river that it became their muse; they fell in love with their river and made incredible art, telling the stories about the river. Toward the end of the project, they started wondering about the stories behind other rivers of the world. They even asked me to take their river paintings to Africa, so as to warn the people not to pollute their rivers.
Two years later, with grants from the Ohio Arts Council and private funding, I was able to take their paintings to Ghana, Africa. Later that same year, the project also went to Volgograd, Russia to study the Volga River.
This was the beginning of the Global Rivers Art Exchange Project. For more information about this first stage of the Project, go to our website, at:
As I travel around, looking at the worlds rivers, I notice that many people have no idea how to protect their local waterways, so often choked with trash and human waste. Given the immediate threats to clean water resources, and related environmental problems around the world, as well as the timely, heightened interest in solving them, it is appropriate to expand this Project now. Can a river be healed through art?
Here Is the Idea;
The Global Rivers Art Exchange will travel to neighborhoods in countries where rivers are distressed, to serve as a way to raise peoples consciousness and to prompt action to counteract this trend. I have more than 50 beautiful river paintings by artists from three continents.
Could artists collective attention to water resources become a unifying factor in joining hands to save our planet? I invite you to join me in a project that has certain material requirements, but no limits on imagination.
Pick a river or a body of water near you. Learn about it, and use its image as your muse. Create a painting on un-stretched canvas, sturdy paper, or any material that can be rolled -- 2ft by 3ft 6 -- with a 5 border at the top and bottom, for scroll holders to be inserted. These paintings will hang vertically, as scrolls; and can be mailed easily from venue to venue.
This invitation goes out to one and all. There will be two levels of work created; one, a juried show of professional-quality art, which will be exhibited at museums, colleges, and universities. The other level will be non-juried and include young people.
The 2nd grouping of works will be shown at schools and community centers. Each entry should have a statement about the piece, and the river you are addressing, in order to keep the educational element strong. You will also be asked to write a paragraph about yourself and your own creative history. In turn, you will be notified as to each and every venue where your work will appear.
For more information about the project, please contact me at: davidson@usit.net
Bernice Davidson
Associate Professor
Martin Methodist College
Pulaski, Tennessee
Russia - Artistic 'Spoils Of War' Unveiled
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Russia has unveiled an exhibition of more than 60 priceless paintings seized by Soviet forces from Nazi Germany at the end of World War Two.
The masterpieces, which were hidden in secret vaults for 50 years, are on display at Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Art and include works by the Spanish classicists Francisco de Goya and El Greco and French impressionist Auguste Renoir. The exhibition is likely to spark a diplomatic row with Germany who has said it expects all the paintings to be returned. But Russia has given no indication that it will do so. What the troops did was a real act of salvation, said Irina Antonova,
director of the Pushkin Museum, at the start of the five-month exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the great victory over Germany. The 63 works on show represent only a sixth of Russia's spoils of war and more exhibitions are expected to follow.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA Exterior of Pushkin State Museum. EMBARGO JAPAN Inside museum, PAN from glass ceiling down to pillars and hallway. Static shot of line of paintings on wall. CU painting of woman sitting with arms folded. Painting of Edgar Degas' Nude Drying Herself. PAN along wall with other paintings and sketch by Degas. CU of painting of woman, PULL-OUT to WS of painting. WS El Greco's St. John The Baptiste CU painting. Detail shot, tilt up to painting of Woman in red dress by Francisco de Goya. WS of same painting. Another painting showing face of woman. Religious painting from 6th or 7th century. Detail of Biajo D'Antonio's Madonna and Child And Angel, tilts down to CU child. ENDS EMBARGO. Museum Director Irina Antonova, sitting at news conference Cutaway cameramen. WS news conference in gallery.
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Mount Rushmore, also known as the President’s Mountain, is located in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota, United States.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore.
Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 18-meter (60-foot) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Following are the main reasons according to the National Park Service why each of the four presidents was chosen for the sculpture:
• George Washington – He was the first president and represented the foundation of American democracy.
• Thomas Jefferson – With the Louisiana Purchase, he greatly expanded the nation. He was also the author of the hugely influential Declaration of Independence.
• Theodore Roosevelt – He not only represented the industrial development of the nation, but was also widely known for conservation efforts.
• Abraham Lincoln – As the president during the US Civil War, he represents the preservation of the nation above all costs.
The faces appear in the order: Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln.
Mount Rushmore standing 1,745 meters (5,725 feet) above sea level was chosen due to its grand location, quality granite and because it faced southeast so enjoyed maximum exposure to the sun.
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The project provisionally titled “Forgotten Leaders” is a series of seven films, each featuring an individual from the leaders of the Soviet state in power during the time period from 1920 to 1953. Each episode is a filmed portrait depicting the story of life, political and public activities of its hero. The heroes of “The Forgotten Leaders” are
individuals ambiguous from the perspective of the Russian and world’s history and odious and often sharply negative in the eyes of public consciousness. Unfortunately, when labeling, we often forget that “each individual
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Type: historical reenactment
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Year of production: 2016
Number of episodes: 8
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Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi) ( listen ) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It is best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II. The city's name, 広島, means Wide Island in Japanese.
Hiroshima gained city status on April 1, 1889. On April 1, 1980, Hiroshima became a designated city. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011.
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons ...
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00:06:32 1 Etymology
00:08:41 2 History
00:08:51 2.1 Early history
00:10:56 2.2 Kievan Rus'
00:14:52 2.3 Grand Duchy of Moscow
00:17:32 2.4 Tsardom of Russia
00:22:40 2.5 Imperial Russia
00:29:11 2.6 February Revolution and Russian Republic
00:31:01 2.7 Soviet Russia and civil war
00:32:50 2.8 Soviet Union
00:37:29 2.8.1 World War II
00:41:28 2.8.2 Cold War
00:46:28 2.9 Russian Federation
00:52:03 3 Politics
00:52:13 3.1 Governance
00:54:43 3.2 Foreign relations
01:00:35 3.3 Military
01:04:04 3.4 Political divisions
01:07:27 4 Geography
01:08:51 4.1 Topography
01:13:30 4.2 Climate
01:16:04 4.3 Biodiversity
01:17:30 5 Economy
01:26:22 5.1 Corruption
01:29:29 5.2 Agriculture
01:32:05 5.3 Energy
01:35:09 5.4 Transport
01:40:52 5.5 Science and technology
01:48:14 5.6 Space exploration
01:50:29 5.7 Water supply and sanitation
01:51:21 6 Demographics
01:57:01 6.1 Largest cities
01:57:11 6.2 Ethnic groups
01:57:41 6.3 Language
01:59:20 6.4 Religion
02:11:26 6.5 Health
02:13:42 6.6 Education
02:15:56 7 Culture
02:16:06 7.1 Folk culture and cuisine
02:20:06 7.2 Architecture
02:24:14 7.3 Visual arts
02:27:49 7.4 Music and dance
02:31:04 7.5 Literature and philosophy
02:35:14 7.6 Cinema, animation and media
02:39:41 7.7 Sports
02:47:57 7.8 National holidays and symbols
02:52:37 7.9 Tourism
02:56:04 8 See also
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on th ...
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Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of anti-Semitic discriminatory policies and persecutions. The largest group among Russian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, but the community also includes a significant number of other Diasporan Jewish groups, such as Mountain Jews, Sephardic Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Bukharan Jews, and Georgian Jews.
The presence of Jewish people in the European part of Russia can be traced to the 7th–14th centuries CE. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Jewish population in Kiev, in present-day Ukraine, was restricted to a separate quarter. Evidence of the presence of Jewish people in Muscovite Russia is first documented in the chronicles of 1471. During the reign of Catherine II in the 18th century, Jewish people were restricted to the Pale of Settlement within Russia, the territory where they could live or immigrate to. Alexander III escalated anti-Jewish policies. Beginning in the 1880s, waves of anti-Jewish pogroms swept across different regions of the empire for several decades. More than two million Jews fled Russia between 1880 and 1920, mostly to the United States and what is today the State of Israel.The Pale of Settlement took away many of the rights that the Jewish people of the late 17th century Russia were experiencing. At this time, the Jewish people were restricted to an area of what is current day Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. Where Western Europe was experiencing emancipation at this time, the laws for the Jewish people were getting more strict. The general attitude towards Jewish people was to look down on the religion and the people. It was as both a religion and a race, something that one could not escape if they tried. Slowly, the Jewish people were allowed to move further east towards a less crowded population. This was a small change, and did not come to all Jewish people, and not even a small minority of them. In this more spread out area, the Jewish people lived in communities, known as Schtetls. These communities were very similar to what would be known as ghettos in World War II, with the cramped and subpar living conditions.Before 1917 there were 300,000 Zionists in Russia, while the main Jewish socialist organization, the Bund, had 33,000 members. Only 958 Jews had joined the Bolshevik Party before 1917; thousands joined after the Revolution. The chaotic years of World War I, the February and October Revolutions, and the Russian Civil War had created social disruption that led to anti-Semitism. Some 150,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of 1918–1922, 125,000 of them in Ukraine, 25,000 in Belarus. The pogroms were mostly perpetrated by anti-communist forces; sometimes, Red Army units engaged in pogroms as well. After a short period of confusion, the Soviets started executing guilty individuals and even disbanding the army units whose men had attacked Jews. Although pogroms were still perpetrated after this, mainly by Ukrainian units of the Red Army during its retreat from Poland (1920), in general, the Jews regarded the Red Army as the only force which was able and willing to defend them. The Russian Civil War pogroms shocked world Jewry and rallied many Jews to the Red Army and the Soviet regime, and also strengthened the desire for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people.In August 1919 the Soviet government arrested many rabbis, seized Jewish properties, including synagogues, and dissolved many Jewish communities. The Jewish section of the Communist Party labeled the use of the Hebrew language reactionary and elitist and the teaching of Hebrew was banned ...
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00:05:32 1 Etymology
00:07:19 2 History
00:07:28 2.1 Early history
00:09:14 2.2 Kievan Rus'
00:12:33 2.3 Grand Duchy of Moscow
00:14:49 2.4 Tsardom of Russia
00:19:10 2.5 Imperial Russia
00:24:38 2.6 February Revolution and Russian Republic
00:26:13 2.7 Soviet Russia and civil war
00:27:46 2.8 Soviet Union
00:31:41 2.8.1 World War II
00:36:03 2.8.2 Cold War
00:40:19 2.9 Russian Federation
00:47:10 3 Politics
00:47:19 3.1 Governance
00:49:28 3.2 Foreign relations
00:54:06 3.3 Military
00:57:02 3.4 Political divisions
00:59:52 4 Geography
01:01:04 4.1 Topography
01:04:56 4.2 Climate
01:07:07 4.3 Biodiversity
01:08:19 5 Economy
01:15:44 5.1 Energy
01:18:19 5.2 External trade and investment
01:19:12 5.3 Agriculture
01:21:22 5.4 Transport
01:26:09 5.5 Science and technology
01:32:23 5.6 Space exploration
01:34:41 5.7 Water supply and sanitation
01:35:25 5.8 Corruption
01:38:01 6 Demographics
01:43:21 6.1 Largest cities
01:43:29 6.2 Ethnic groups
01:43:55 6.3 Language
01:45:19 6.4 Religion
01:55:31 6.5 Health
01:57:25 6.6 Education
01:59:19 7 Culture
01:59:27 7.1 Folk culture and cuisine
02:02:48 7.2 Architecture
02:06:16 7.3 Visual arts
02:09:16 7.4 Music and dance
02:12:01 7.5 Literature and philosophy
02:15:32 7.6 Cinema, animation and media
02:19:16 7.7 Sports
02:26:13 7.8 National holidays and symbols
02:30:11 7.9 Tourism
02:33:06 8 See also
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is by a considerable margin the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 146.77 million people as of 2019, including Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is one of the largest cities in the world and the second largest city in Europe; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities and achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, wh ...
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has b ...