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unusual facts about Russian government



2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

The country had previously planned to bid for the FIBA EuroBasket 2017, but were instructed by the Russian Government to abandon their plans due to the amount of sporting events already due to take place in the nation around the same time (most notably the 2018 FIFA World Cup).

Samuel Ifor Enoch

In 1933 Enoch contributed one shilling (5p) towards the public fund-raising campaign which bought the Codex Sinaiticus from the Russian government for £100,000.


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Civilian Power

On February 27, 2007, Mikhail Barshchevsky, the chairman and plenipotentary of the High Council of the Russian government, held a press conference.

Dogger Bank incident

Under diplomatic pressure, the Russian government agreed to investigate the incident, and Rozhestvenski was ordered to dock in Vigo, Spain, where he left behind those officers considered responsible (as well as at least one officer who had been critical of him).

Eduard de Stoeckl

Stoeckl advocated the sale of Alaska (then known as Russian America) to the United States, asserting that this would allow the Russian government to concentrate its resources on Eastern Siberia, particularly the Amur River area.

Elected Cossacks

Following the reforms of the Russian government in 1734, cossacks were divided into two groups: Elected Cossacks and Cossack Helpers.

Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology

Federal Agency on Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) is the name of the Russian government agency that serves as a national standardization body of the Russian Federation.

George Davenport

In the fall of 1803, shortly after arriving with a cargo from Liverpool, Davenport was arrested with the rest of his crew while in port at St. Petersburg when the Czarist Russian government acceded to Napoleon's embargo on British vessels (the "Continental System").

Herbert Sorrell

According to author Peter Schweizer in his book Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, archives released by the Russian government after the fall of the USSR show that Sorrell was a Soviet spy.

Hermitage Capital Management

Although the fund's founder William Browder was a supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, in November of 2005 he was blacklisted by the Russian government as a "threat to national security" and denied entry to the country.

Jochen Wermuth

Yevgeny Yasin, ex-Minister of Economics wrote in his article in a book about Russian economic reforms that Jochen Wermuth, head of the Economic Expert Group under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, was the first to warn of a potential default of the Russian Government in a memo in the fall of 1996 which he forwarded to Chernomyrdin.

Lazare Kaplan International

It established a joint manufacturing partnership with Alrosa (the Russian government-owned mining company), with cutting facilities in Moscow and Barnaul.

Lyskovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

In 1686, Lyskovo was granted by the Russian government to the emigré Georgian monarch Archil of Imereti.

Mikhail Yuzefovich

In his report to the Russian Government "On the so-called Ukrainophile movement" in 1876 he characterised Ukrainian language societies as subversive and claimed they were organised by Polish and Austrian enemies of Russia.

Moscow Country Club

The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., and built by Antti Peltoniemi under the guidance of the Russian government department, GlavUpDK, headed by Ivan Sergeyev and Alexander Zinovyev.

National Library of Russia

The cornerstone of the foreign-language department came from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the form of Załuski's Library (420,000 volumes), nationalized by the Russian government at the time of the partitions.

Orenburg Cossacks

For the purpose of defending the city and colonizing the region, The Russian government relocated the Cossacks from Ufa, Iset, Samara and other places and created the Orenburg non-regular corps in 1748.

Ōtsu incident

In 1993, when the Russian government was attempting to verify whether or not bone fragments recovered from the Yekaterinburg murder site belonged to Tsar Nicholas II, a sample of the Tsar's DNA was required.

Phineas Mendel Heilprin

He early settled in Piotrków and subsequently in Tomaszów, where he became a manufacturer and merchant, but, in consequence of oppression by the Russian government, he removed in 1842 to Hungary.

Russian Far East

However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian Government, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur.

Special Battalions Vostok and Zapad

Zapad servicemen were loyal to the Russian government, while the core of Vostok were former separatist fighters of the 2nd Battalion of the National Guard of Ichkeria from Gudermes, who had fought against Russian troops in the First Chechen War of 1994-1996; they then switched to the federal side and swore allegiance to Russia.

Tersk

Tersk Stud, a horse breeding farm in Russia owned and operated by the Russian government

Ukrainian Wikipedia

Articles about the history of Ukrainian language included articles about early publications like bibles printed in Ukrainian, grammar books, changes in phonetics through time, Ukrainian calligraphy, history of Ukrainian language within the context of the Soviet Union, linguicide and the banning of Ukrainian language by the Russian Government.