Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, is the shared mother tongue of the Russians; and Orthodox Christianity is their historical religion since the 11th century. Russian and Church Slavonic with Old Russian vocabulary. While these older letters have been abandoned at one time or another, they may be used in this and related articles. In 1961, the first human trip into space was successfully made by Yuri Gagarin. [539] The second half of the 19th-century was dominated by the Neo-Byzantine and Russian Revival style. [297] Since 2011, the Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked Russia as an "authoritarian regime" in its Democracy Index, ranking it 124th out of 167 countries for 2021. [488], The principle cause of death in Russia are cardiovascular diseases. Breslauer, George W. and Colton, Timothy J. Some linguists divide the dialects of Russian into two primary regional groupings, "Northern" and "Southern", with Moscow lying on the zone of transition between the two. [44], The destruction of Kievan Rus' saw the eventual rise of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, initially a part of Vladimir-Suzdal. [336], Russia is the world's thirteenth-largest exporter and the 21st-largest importer. Throughout his rule, sweeping reforms were made, which brought significant Western European cultural influences to Russia. [585] Mikhail Bakunin is referred to as the father of anarchism. Ivan Goncharov is remembered mainly for his novel Oblomov. [365][366] Russia's oil and gas production has led to deep economic relationships with the European Union, China, and former Soviet and Eastern Bloc states. [603] Other meat dishes include stuffed cabbage rolls (golubtsy) usually filled with meat. [73] In 1648, Semyon Dezhnyov became the first European to navigate through the Bering Strait. [571] Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote prose satire,[572] while Nikolai Leskov is best remembered for his shorter fiction. Russian artillery fire down 75% in some areas, US officials say, in latest sign of struggles for Moscow. The Russian syllable structure can be quite complex, with both initial and final consonant clusters of up to four consecutive sounds. Constitution of the Russian Federation", "Article 17. [385] Since 1904, Nobel Prize were awarded to 26 Soviets and Russians in physics, chemistry, medicine, economy, literature and peace. The number of listed words or entries in some of the major dictionaries published during the past two centuries, are as follows:[95][96], The history of the Russian language may be divided into the following periods:[97], Judging by the historical records, by approximately 1000 AD the predominant ethnic group over much of modern European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus was the Eastern branch of the Slavs, speaking a closely related group of dialects. [164], The economic and political collapse of the Soviet Union led Russia into a deep and prolonged depression. . . . [92], The Russian alphabet has many systems of character encoding. Fighting continues after a 36-hour Russian-proposed ceasefire which Ukraine dismissed as a cynical ploy ended overnight Saturday. Rossiyane ( ), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity. [51] 77% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 67% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. [495], Russian culture has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical location and its vast expanse, religious and social traditions, and Western influence. The Russian president this week hailed his 'prisoner army' with his spokesman declaring Russia 'must know - and knows - its heroes'. [143], After World War II, parts of Eastern and Central Europe, including East Germany and eastern parts of Austria were occupied by Red Army according to the Potsdam Conference. The Russian perspective. 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State-run Channel One and Russia-1 are the leading news channels, while RT is the flagship of Russia's international media operations. [497] It can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were composed. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. [citation needed], The political upheavals of the early 20th century and the wholesale changes of political ideology gave written Russian its modern appearance after the spelling reform of 1918. [401] Trofim Lysenko was known mainly for Lysenkoism. Together with Ukrainian and Belarusian, the Russian language makes up the eastern branch of the Slavic family of languages. The reigns of Vladimir the Great (9801015) and his son Yaroslav the Wise (10191054) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium, and the creation of the first East Slavic written legal code, the Russkaya Pravda. Grigori Perelman was offered the first ever Clay Millennium Prize Problems Award for his final proof of the Poincar conjecture in 2002, as well as the Fields Medal in 2006. Political circumstances and Soviet accomplishments in military, scientific, and technological matters (especially cosmonautics), gave Russian a worldwide prestige, especially during the mid-20th century. The Havana State University has started a bachelor's specialization called the Russian Language and the Second Foreign Language. [375], Russia's agriculture sector contributes about 5% of the country's total GDP, although the sector employs about one-eighth of the total labour force. [145] After becoming the world's second nuclear power,[146] the Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact alliance,[147] and entered into a struggle for global dominance, known as the Cold War, with the rivaling United States and NATO. [478], Admission to an institute of higher education is selective and highly competitive:[474] first-degree courses usually take five years. Borrowings and calques from Byzantine Greek began to enter the Old East Slavic and spoken dialects at this time, which in their turn modified the Old Church Slavonic as well. [citation needed], According to the Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an optional acute accent ( ) may, and sometimes should, be used to mark stress. [citation needed], Despite leveling after 1900, especially in matters of vocabulary and phonetics, a number of dialects still exist in Russia. [148] After Stalin's death in 1953 and a short period of collective rule, the new leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin and launched the policy of de-Stalinization, releasing many political prisoners from the Gulag labor camps. [citation needed], The current spelling follows the major reform of 1918, and the final codification of 1956. [53], In Turkmenistan, Russian lost its status as the official lingua franca in 1996. "We also have to understand that it's extraordinarily threatening to Russia to have such a big military alliance that's armed to the teeth so close to the Russian border [editor's note: if NATO were to expand]." ", Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, "Leninism: What It Was and What It Was Not", "7 kinds of Russian bread you'll want to bite the crust off of", "When it comes to bread, Russians don't loaf", "Spotlight on Smetana: Russia's Sour Cream", "Understanding Russia's obsession with mayonnaise", "From sizzling shashlik to spicy seekh kebabs: barbecue recipes from around the world", "Russian Vinegret salad: Super-easy and super-traditional", "Map: Where the world's biggest vodka drinkers are", Obzor rossiyskogo rynka alkogol'noy produktsii. "iconv" is an example that is supported by most versions of Linux, Macintosh and some other operating systems; but converters are rarely needed unless accessing texts created more than a few years ago. [596][597] Pirozhki,[598] blini,[599] and syrniki are native types of pancakes. Russian is written using the Russian alphabet of the Cyrillic script; it distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those withoutthe so-called "soft" and "hard" sounds. [223] The Volga in western Russia, widely regarded as Russia's national river, is the longest river in Europe; and forms the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in the continent. Rossiyane ( ), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity. This article incorporates text from a free content work. Cyberwarfare and airspace violations, along with electoral interference, have been used to increase perceptions of Russian power. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries. Mike Myrianthis, a Greek oil industry veteran, believes that whoever bombed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline opened a can of worms. [269], Russia maintains close relations with neighbouring Belarus, which is a part of the Union State, a supranational confederation of the two states. [225], The size of Russia and the remoteness of many of its areas from the sea result in the dominance of the humid continental climate throughout most of the country, except for the tundra and the extreme southwest. ", "CDL-REF(2021)010 Opinion No. [j] In 1993, when the new constitution was adopted, there were 89 federal subjects listed, but some were later merged. [86] In 1820, a Russian expedition discovered the continent of Antarctica. [12] Russia is the most populous country in Europe, and the world's ninth most populous country, with a population density of 9 inhabitants per square kilometre (23 per square mile). Sizable Russian-speaking communities also exist in North America, especially in large urban centers of the US and Canada, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, Nashville, San Francisco, Seattle, Spokane, Toronto, Calgary, Baltimore, Miami, Chicago, Denver, and Cleveland. [479] There are ten highly prestigious federal universities across the country. [citation needed]. [482] The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation oversees the Russian public healthcare system, and the sector employs more than two million people. [27] Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. From the point of view of spoken language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn,[34] the other three languages in the East Slavic branch. The Russian Genitive of Negation and Its Japanese Counterpart. Russian nouns each have a gender either feminine, masculine, or neuter, chiefly indicated by spelling at the end of the word. - , Weekly 329 330 14 27 2008. [44] Moscow gradually absorbed its parent duchy and surrounding principalities, including formerly strong rivals such as Tver and Novgorod. "Full" 17-volumed dictionary of the contemporary language. Greene, by Samuel A. and Graeme B. Robertson. [457][458] The amendments of 2020 to the constitution added, in the Article 67, the continuity of the Russian state in history based on preserving "the memory of the ancestors" and general "ideals and belief in God" which the ancestors conveyed. [citation needed], In Armenia, Russian has no official status, but it is recognized as a minority language under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. [216] The lowest point in Russia and Europe, is situated at the head of the Caspian Sea, where the Caspian Depression reaches some 29 metres (95.1ft) below sea level. Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, is the shared mother tongue of the Russians; and Orthodox Christianity is their historical religion since the 11th century. [506] The large global Russian diaspora has also played a major role in spreading Russian culture throughout the world. [66] However, the Tsardom was weakened by the long and unsuccessful Livonian War against the coalition of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (later the united PolishLithuanian Commonwealth), the Kingdom of Sweden, and DenmarkNorway for access to the Baltic coast and sea trade. [436] However, since 2020, due to excessive deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's population has undergone its largest peacetime decline in history. [52], In Azerbaijan, Russian has no official status, but is a lingua franca of the country. [429], Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated and urbanised countries,[7] with the vast majority of its population concentrated within its western part. However, starting January 2019 Cuban television opened an educational program devoted to the Russian language. [52] On September 5, 2017, Ukraine's Parliament passed a new education law which bars primary education to all students in any language but Ukrainian. [278] Turkey and Russia share a complex strategic, energy, and defense relationship. The 18th-century taste for Rococo architecture led to the splendid works of Bartolomeo Rastrelli and his followers. [527], In the 1860s, a group of critical realists (Peredvizhniki), led by Ivan Kramskoy, Ilya Repin and Vasiliy Perov broke with the academy, and portrayed the many-sided aspects of social life in paintings. [224] The Siberian rivers of Ob, Yenisey, Lena, and Amur are among the world's longest rivers. [139]:27 During the war, Soviet civilian and military death were about 2627 million,[140] accounting for about half of all World WarII casualties. [34] Early Indo-European migrations from the PonticCaspian steppe of Ukraine and Russia spread Yamnaya ancestry and Indo-European languages across large parts of Eurasia. [504][505], Russia is home to 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 19 out of which are cultural; while 27 more sites lie on the tentative list. [443][444] According to the United Nations, Russia's immigrant population is the world's third-largest, numbering over 11.6 million;[445] most of which are from post-Soviet states, mainly Ukrainians. [236] Although in decline, the country still has many ecosystems which are still onsidered intact forest; mainly in the northern taiga areas, and the subarctic tundra of Siberia. [77], In Vietnam, Russian has been added in the elementary curriculum along with Chinese and Japanese and were named as "first foreign languages" for Vietnamese students to learn, on equal footing with English. [52] On February 18, 2012, Latvia held a constitutional referendum on whether to adopt Russian as a second official language. Mike Myrianthis, a Greek oil industry veteran, believes that whoever bombed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline opened a can of worms. Russian is still seen as an important language for children to learn in most of the former Soviet republics. [47][48][49], Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. [69] The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, taking advantage, occupied parts of Russia, extending into the capital Moscow. [21] The standard way to refer to the citizens of Russia is "Russians" in English. Leo Tolstoy's ( ) War and Peace, contain entire paragraphs and even pages in French with no translation given, with an assumption that educated readers would not need one. [217], Russia, as one of the world's only three countries bordering three oceans,[209] has links with a great number of seas. It also produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely. WebOn This Day. [222] Ladoga and Onega in northwestern Russia are two of the largest lakes in Europe. [490] However, Russia's historically high alcohol consumption rate is the biggest health issue in the country,[491] as it remains one of the world's highest, despite a stark decrease in the last decade. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. [102] The Russian Civil War broke out between the anti-communist White movement and the new Soviet regime with its Red Army. [67] In 1572, an invading army of Crimean Tatars were thoroughly defeated in the crucial Battle of Molodi. Under the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Russian language is not offered any status in terms of official language. [394] Zhores Alferov contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. [55] According to the Central Election Commission, 74.8% voted against, 24.9% voted for and the voter turnout was 71.1%. As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its 11th month, US and Ukrainian officials tell CNN that Russia's artillery fire is down dramatically from its wartime high, in some places by as much as 75%. [95] The reign of his son AlexanderIII (18811894) was less liberal but more peaceful. [7], Russia is among the five recognised nuclear-weapons states, with the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons; over half of the world's nuclear weapons are owned by Russia. [255] Originally seven, currently there are eight federal districts, each headed by an envoy appointed by the president. [83][84] All dialects are also divided into two main chronological categories: the dialects of primary formation (the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow roughly consists of the modern Central and Northwestern Federal districts) and secondary formation (other territories where Russian was brought by migrants from primary formation territories or adopted by the local population). (Ty syel pechnye? [403] Vladimir Zworykin was the inventor of the iconoscope and kinescope television systems. [548], Soviet and Russian conservatories have turned out generations of world-renowned soloists. [citation needed], In addition to the modern Russian alphabet, Unicode (and thus UTF-8) encodes the Early Cyrillic alphabet (which is very similar to the Greek alphabet), and all other Slavic and non-Slavic but Cyrillic-based alphabets. [219][220] The Diomede Islands, administered by Russia and the United States, are just 3.8km (2.4mi) apart;[221] and Kunashir Island of the Kuril Islands is merely 20km (12.4mi) from Hokkaido, Japan. Soledar has been the centre of Russian aggression in recent days as it lies [437] Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the demographic crisis in the country has deepened,[438] as the country has faced a renewed brain drain and human capital flight caused by Western mass-sanctions and boycotts. [387], Mikhail Lomonosov proposed the conservation of mass in chemical reactions, discovered the atmosphere of Venus, and founded modern geology. [287][288] It is mandatory for all male citizens aged 1827 to be drafted for a year of service in the Armed Forces. ", "Article 68. ", "Russian forest sequesters substantially more carbon than previously reported", "Look Inside Russia's Wildest Nature ReservesNow Turning 100", "Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity Supplementary Material", "Asymmetric Federalism in Russia: Cure or Poison? [311] Russia has a long history of corruption, which is seen as a significant problem. According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 14,400,000 native speakers of Russian in the country, and 29 million active speakers. Russian has five or six vowels in stressed syllables, /i, u, e, o, a/, and in some analyses //, but in most cases these vowels have merged to only two to four vowels when unstressed: /i, u, a/ (or /, u, a/) after hard consonants and /i, u/ after soft ones. [289] Russia possesses the second-largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines,[290] and is one of the only three countries operating strategic bombers. [192] Russia steeply escalated the war by launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Reading of excerpt of Pushkin's "Winter Evening" ( ), 1825. Eventually Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, managed to suppress all opposition factions and consolidate power in his hands to become the country's dictator by the 1930s. ? Over the course of centuries, the vocabulary and literary style of Russian have also been influenced by Western and Central European languages such as Greek, Latin, Polish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, and English,[36] and to a lesser extent the languages to the south and the east: Uralic, Turkic,[37][38] Persian,[39][40] Arabic, and Hebrew. [432], Since the 1990s, Russia's death rate has exceeded its birth rate, which some analysts have called a demographic crisis. However, due to the harshness of its environment, about 13.1% of its land is agricultural,[7] and only 7.4% of its land is arable. [59]:1120 While still under the domain of the Mongol-Tatars and with their connivance, Moscow began to assert its influence in the region in the early 14th century,[60] gradually becoming the leading force in the "gathering of the Russian lands". [29] The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was found at KostyonkiBorshchyovo,[30] and at Sungir, dating back to 34,600 years agoboth in western Russia. Though each of the constituent republics had its own official language, the unifying role and superior status was reserved for Russian, although it was declared the official language only in 1990. [186] In 2008, Putin took the post of prime minister, while Dmitry Medvedev was elected president for one term, to hold onto power despite legal term limits;[187] this period has been described as a "tandemocracy. Ukraine sent more than 100 Russian soldiers 'to Hell' in a coordinated strike on the frontlines in the battle for the control of Soledar, its military has claimed.. The Russian republic was established immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became a union republic in 1922. [509], Russia has eightpublic, patriotic, and religiousofficial holidays. Russia possesses the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and has the fifth-highest military expenditure. An update proposed in the late 1990s has met a hostile reception, and has not been formally adopted. [138] The Soviet Union, along with the United States, the United Kingdom and China were considered the Big Four of Allied powers in World War II, and later became the Four Policemen, which was the foundation of the United Nations Security Council. [417]:3460 During the same period, Lunokhod 1 became the first space exploration rover,[418] while Salyut1 became the world's first space station. [478] The oldest and largest universities in Russia are Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University. [158] Prior to 1991, the Soviet economy was the world's second-largest, but during its final years, it went into a crisis. In a statement, the military said the soldiers "went together to Hell" after they were struck by missiles. [citation needed], Significant Russian-speaking groups also exist in Western Europe. [384] It also ranked tenth worldwide in the number of scientific publications in 2020, with roughly 1.3 million papers. [643] Figure skating is another popular sport in Russia, especially pair skating and ice dancing. WebThe Russians (Russian: , romanized: russkie) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe, who share a common Russian ancestry, culture, and history. [467][468] Some religious minorities have faced oppression and some have been banned in the country;[469] notably, in 2017 the Jehovah's Witnesses were outlawed in Russia, facing persecution ever since, after having been declared an "extremist" and "nontraditional" faith. [70] Additionally, 1,854,700 residents of Kyrgyzstan aged 15 and above fluently speak Russian as a second language, or 49.6% of the population in the age group. [503], The 1960s and 1970s saw a greater variety of artistic styles in Soviet cinema. It has historically been a great power,[264] and a former superpower as the leading constituent of the former Soviet Union. These have been fed by several waves of immigrants since the beginning of the 20th century, each with its own flavor of language. [273][274], In the 21st century Russia has pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at securing regional dominance and international influence, as well as increasing domestic support for the government. 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