Russia

Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossiya, Russian pronunciation: [rɐˈsʲijə]), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It covers over 17,125,191 square kilometres (6,612,073 sq mi), consists of more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, extends to eleven time zones, and has borders with sixteen sovereign nations. Moscow is the country's capital and largest city, while Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city. The Russians are the largest Slavic and European nation, and Russian is the most spoken Slavic language; as well as the most spoken native language in Europe. Russia is the largest country …

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11 May 2022 English

Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War provides access to British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953, with the majority of files dating from …

cooperation ● U.K. preparations for war with Soviet Russia The PUSD files can be found in the series FO 1093


11 May 2022 English

Summary of the editorial selection criteria, and the metadata elements provided.

documents. For example, Russia may be referred to in different documents as Russia, the Soviet Union, or


5 May 2022 English

Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.

point of view). FCO 28/3702 30-39 Textual Managing Russia - a historical essay emphasizing the high level disaster" - an explosion at a plutonium works in Russia in 1957 which was successfully covered up by the


5 May 2022 English

Dr. Mark Allinson, University of Bristol; Professor Csaba Békés, Corvinus University of Budapest; Dr. Peter Bugge, Aarhus University; Professor Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University; Dr. Hope M. Harrison, The George Washington …

twentieth-century European history focusing on Germany and Russia. With a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D


4 May 2022

Countries and Constituent Republics of Eastern European States during the Cold War

Repubic of Moldova Russia R.S.F.S.R. Russian Federation Russian S.F.S.R. Soviet Russia Tajikstan Republic


4 May 2022 English

Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to thousands of files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and …

plane incident In addition, the full run of FO 371 Russia Committee files dating back to 1946 – totalling been included. These complete the set of FO 371 Russia Committee meeting minutes and reports dating up


1 January 2017 English

The Cold War in Europe was intertwined with the Second World War in a rather circular fashion. The East/West conflict arose from the circumstances of the end of the world …

eighteenth century its newly powerful neighbors – Russia, Austria, and Prussia – eliminated their Polish


1 January 2017 English

In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …

while we might welcome Albania’s separation from Russia if it were on the Yugoslavian model, we found it


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

Brown about the treatment of Russian citizens in Russia and about political psychiatry in general. I would


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Czech

A file of documents concerning the restitution of Czechoslovak gold and the settlement of British claims against Czechoslovakia. Subjects discussed in the file include an agreement for the repatriation of …

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