Category: Europe

Not far from Komsomolsk-on-Amur is the Komsomolsk State Nature Reserve. It was founded in 1963 in the basin of the Gorin River (the left…

As far as the dialectal differentiation of the Eastern-Slavic speakers (see Slavs) is not very pronounced, yet three literary languages ​​are found today on…

In the century 14 ° the itinerant shops and the immigrant artists (for ex. Theophanes the Greek) were above all mediators of the succession…

The massive construction of the load-bearing and dividing walls is connected to the structure of the free, wall and corner pillars. Vertically the shapes…

Five naves with as many apses, twelve supports (pillars instead of Constantinopolitan columns), two ambulatories, large U-shaped tribune, ‘stepped’ elevation, thirteen domes on tambour,…

The vastness and impenetrability of the region, with scarce settlements and reduced population density, its geographical position between the Europe and Asia, the peasant…

Vast region of Eastern Europe extending from the Pontic-Baltic isthmus to the Ural Mountains. From the political point of view, the term designates the…

In the following year, 1999, all the elements of the profound and complex crisis – relating to the political-institutional and economic-financial fields, as well…

The undoubted successes achieved in the field of international relations by Russian diplomacy were partly clouded when, by putting an end to a long…

To face the threat and in anticipation of a difficult electoral campaign – the one for the election of the president called for June…

Particularly serious was the conflict (made clear by the non-renewal, in the spring of 1993, of the extraordinary powers attributed to El´cin in November…

To cope with the social tensions and the pressure of the opposition that meanwhile was gaining strength within the republican Parliament, El´cin had removed…

Russia or the Russian Federation was born as an independent state on December 25, 1991, when the last president of the USSR, M. Gorbachev,…

The final offensive. – The maneuver of the final offensive takes place in a large quadrilateral: to the north, the Baltic coast; Oder-Neisse to…

The invasion of Romania and the Balkan countries. – The four groups of qualified “Ukrainian” armies, under the orders of Žukov (I), Malinovskij (II),…

Offensive of the summer – autumn 1944. – At the end of June, the summer campaign starts simultaneously in the northern and central sectors; in the…