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unusual facts about Russian People



A Simple Motion

"A Simple Motion" (Russian language; Prostye Dvizheniya. Cyrillic; Простые Движения) is a song by Russian recording group t.A.T.u., taken from their re-release of their debut English studio album 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane (2002).

Anna Slynko

Anna Slynko, born 25 March 1983 in Pushkin, Leningrad region, USSR (now Russia), is a Russian actress who studied at the St. Petersburg University Theatre and has appeared notably as Tatjana in the MTV and Staying Alive production Transit and 20 Sigaret (English: 20 Cigarettes) as Lisa.

Arslanbob

The town of Arslanbob has around 1500 inhabitants; most of the population are Kyrgyz and Uzbek, and less than 1% is Russian, Tatar, Tajik, or Chechen.

Faux queen

In the 1970s and 1980s, Russian-born Brazilian faux queen Elke Maravilha became a popular TV personality after participating as a judge in Chacrinha and Silvio Santos talent shows.

Gocha Vetriakov

A native of Tbilisi and of Russian ethnic descent, Gocha Vetriakov graduated from the Vladivostok maritime college in Russia and then joined the ranks of the Coast Guard of Georgia.

Gordiy Sablukov

Gordiy Semionovich Sablukov (1804-1880) was Russian expert on Islam.

Hisor

As of 2002, it had a population of 22,961, composed 81.6% of Tajiks, 12.3% Uzbeks, 3.6% Russians, and 2.5% others.

Jakov Berman

Jakov Alexandrovich Berman (1868-1933) was a Russian philosopher and political theorist linked to Russian machism and Pragmatism.

Nail Çakırhan

Back in Turkey by divorcing from his Russian first wife in 1937 (he was going to be able to see his son only in 1979), he started working in the leftist newspaper "Tan" and married the well-known and respected Olympics pioneer athlete and archaeologist Halet Çambel.

Vikentii Trofimov

Vikentii Pavlovich Trofimov (Russian: Викентий Павлович Трофимов; November 24, 1878 in Talizky Zavod, Perm Governorate – February 10, 1956 in Zagorsk, Sergiyevo-Posadsky District, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian painter.

Vladimir Pasyoukov

Vladimir Pavlovich Pasyukov (Pasjukov) (Russian:Владимир Павлович Пасюков ) (July, 29th, 1944 - June, 20th, 2011) was a Russian opera, folk and church singer who possessed a very powerful, extremely rare low-ranging basso profondo (Oktavist) voice, one of the lowest voices in the world.

Ying and Yan

This play features Akunin's character, the Russian detective Erast Fandorin along with his Japanese manservant Masahiro "Masa" Sibata and is placed shortly after Fandorin's return from Japan.


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Konstantin Pobedonostsev

In the early years of the reign of Alexander II, Pobedonostsev maintained, though keeping aloof from the Slavophiles, that Western institutions were radically bad in themselves and totally inapplicable to Russia since they had no roots in Russian history and culture and did not correspond to the spirit of Russian people.

Maurice G. Hindus

During the Cold War Hindus was very critical of the Soviet government, though he always distinguished between the Kremlin and the Russian people.

Okhrana

Along with this repression and the end of the Revolution of 1905 came a shift in the political police’s mentality; gone were the days of Nicholas I’s white-gloved moral police: post-1905 the political police feared that the Russian people were as eager to destroy them as to depose the Tsar.

Oleg Platonov

In his work The History of the Russian People in the Twentieth Century, Platonov treats the February and October revolutions of 1917 as handiwork of Judæo-Masonic conspirators, the agents of the Entente and of the German Empire.

Pomory

Pomors, a general name of Russian people who live on the bank of White Sea, Russia

Supreme War Council

Lloyd George proposed dropping the blockade of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic by starting negotiations with the "Russian people" in the form of the centrosoyuz, which at that time was not controlled by the Bolsheviks.

Two Hundred Years Together

John Klier, a historian at University College London, describes the charges of anti-Semitism as "misguided", but at the same time writes that in his account of the pogroms of the early 20th century, Solzhenitsyn is far more concerned with exonerating the good name of the Russian people than he is with the suffering of the Jews, and he accepts the czarist government's canards blaming the pogroms on provocations by the Jews themselves.