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. [41] In classical antiquity, the Pontic-Caspian Steppe was known as Scythia. [192] Russia steeply escalated the war by launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. [326][327] Chechens and Ingush in Russian prisons reportedly take more abuse than other ethnic groups. ", "Russia and Ukraine Fight, But Their People Seek Reconciliation", " ", "The North Caucasus Bilingualism and Language Identity", Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, "Linguistic rights and education in the republics of the Russian Federation: towards unity through uniformity", "Linguistic Diversity In Russia Is A Threat To Sovereignty Or A Condition Of Cohesion? The Russian-imposed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, has posted to Telegram to say that in total the air defences of the Crimean city repulsed 10 drones from Ukraine this morning. Russia possesses the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and has the fifth-highest military expenditure. Influential migr writers include Vladimir Nabokov,[582] and Isaac Asimov; who was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers. Verbs of motion in Russian such as 'go', 'walk', 'run', 'swim', and 'fly' use the imperfective or perfective form to indicate a single or return trip, and also use a multitude of prefixes to add shades of meaning to the verb. [320], Muslims, especially Salafis, have faced persecution in Russia. [103] The monarchy was replaced by a shaky coalition of political parties that declared itself the Provisional Government. The name Russia is derived from Rus', a medieval state populated primarily by the East Slavs. [j] In 1993, when the new constitution was adopted, there were 89 federal subjects listed, but some were later merged. [622] Dziga Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory had a huge impact on the development of documentary filmmaking and cinema realism. [287][288] It is mandatory for all male citizens aged 1827 to be drafted for a year of service in the Armed Forces. [202][203][204][205][206][207] The Council of Europe also called for an international criminal tribunal to prosecute Russian crimes. Rossiyane ( ), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity. [222] Ladoga and Onega in northwestern Russia are two of the largest lakes in Europe. The Russian republic was established immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became a union republic in 1922. About 2 million years ago, representatives of Homo erectus migrated to the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. [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. Russia's national symbol, the double-headed eagle, dates back to the Tsardom period, and is featured in its coat of arms and heraldry. [189] It was the first European war of the 21st century. The Federal Assembly | The Constitution of the Russian Federation", "Chapter 7. South Africa is allowing Chinese and Russian warships to conduct naval exercises off its coast next month, raising concerns that the move could alienate trading partners. They are the Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the overwhelming majority of Russophones in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in New York City were Russian-speaking Jews. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Wikisource has original works on the topic: . Nakhimovsky quotes the Soviet academicians A.M Ivanov and L.P Yakubinsky, writing in 1930: The language of peasants has a motley diversity inherited from feudalism. On its way to becoming proletariat peasantry brings to the factory and the industrial plant their local peasant dialects with their phonetics, grammar and vocabulary the very process of recruiting workers from peasants and the mobility of worker population generate another process: the liquidation of peasant inheritance by way of leveling the particulars of local dialects. [84][86] Some of these features such as akanye and yakanye, a debuccalized or lenited //, a semivowel /wu/ and palatalized final /t/ in 3rd person forms of verbs are also present in modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian (Eastern Polesian), indicating a linguistic continuum. [255] Originally seven, currently there are eight federal districts, each headed by an envoy appointed by the president. [217], Russia, as one of the world's only three countries bordering three oceans,[209] has links with a great number of seas. [citation needed], The modern literary language is usually considered to date from the time of Alexander Pushkin ( ) in the first third of the 19thcentury. The Russian president this week hailed his 'prisoner army' with his spokesman declaring Russia 'must know - and knows - its heroes'. [501] Bandy is Russia's national sport, and it has historically been the highest-achieving country in the sport. [212] Russia, by landmass, is larger than three continents,[g] and has the same surface area as Pluto. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels. "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]." [25] Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen lived 195122,700 years ago. [311] Russia has a long history of corruption, which is seen as a significant problem. Source: Energoatom, Ukraine's state company that runs all nuclear power plants in this country Quote: "The Russian invaders in the satellite city [71] Nevertheless, the Turkmen state press and newspaper Neytralny Turkmenistan regularly publish material version in Russian-language, and there are schools like Joint Turkmen-Russian Secondary School. [503] The nation has also made pioneering contributions to science and technology and space exploration. Palatalization means that the center of the tongue is raised during and after the articulation of the consonant. Its mineral and energy sources are the world's largest, and its figures for oil production and natural gas production rank high globally. [453] The constitution gives the country's individual republics the right to establish their own state languages in addition to Russian, as well as guarantee its citizens the right to preserve their native language and to create conditions for its study and development. The rule of the new authorities only aggravated the crisis in the country instead of resolving it, and eventually, the October Revolution, led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government and gave full governing power to the Soviets, leading to the creation of the world's first socialist state. [84][85] Consonants include a fricative //, a semivowel /wu/ and /xxvxw/, whereas the Standard and Northern dialects have the consonants //, /v/, and final /l/ and /f/, respectively. 2 mins. [412], In 1957, Laika, a Soviet space dog, became the first animal to orbit the Earth, aboard Sputnik 2. The federal subjects have equal representationtwo delegates eachin the Federation Council, the upper house of the Federal Assembly. [citation needed], Dialectal differentiation accelerated after the breakup of Kievan Rus' in approximately 1100. [93] During most of the 19th and early 20th century, Russia and Britain colluded over Afghanistan and its neighboring territories in Central and South Asia; the rivalry between the two major European empires came to be known as the Great Game. [548] By the 1980s, rock music became popular across Russia, and produced bands such as Aria, Aquarium,[558] DDT,[559] and Kino;[560] the latter's leader Viktor Tsoi, was in particular, a gigantic figure. State-run Channel One and Russia-1 are the leading news channels, while RT is the flagship of Russia's international media operations. Available for over a year. [232][233], Russian biodiversity includes 12,500 species of vascular plants, 2,200 species of bryophytes, about 3,000 species of lichens, 7,0009,000 species of algae, and 20,00025,000 species of fungi. [94], The late 19th century saw the rise of various socialist movements in Russia. 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[416] In 1971, Mars3 became the first spacecraft to land on Mars. [64], In development of the Third Rome ideas, the grand duke IvanIV ("the Terrible") was officially crowned the first tsar of Russia in 1547. 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%. ", "CDL-REF(2021)010 Opinion No. In Georgia, Russian has no official status, but it is recognized as a minority language under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. However, the peasants' speech was never systematically studied, as it was generally regarded by philologists as simply a source of folklore and an object of curiosity. [497][498] The Russians have also greatly influenced classical music,[499] ballet,[500] sport,[501] painting,[502] and cinema. [151], In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik1, thus starting the Space Age. Constitution of the Republic of Belarus", "Article 7. [523] During the reign of Catherine the Great, Saint Petersburg was transformed into an outdoor museum of Neoclassical architecture. "Was it you who ate the cookie?") [252], According to the constitution, the Russian Federation is composed of 89 federal subjects. [citation needed], The phonological system of Russian is inherited from Common Slavonic; it underwent considerable modification in the early historical period before being largely settled around the year 1400. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. [525][526] Ivan Aivazovsky, another Romantic painter, is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first and youngest woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6. [398] Ivan Pavlov is known chiefly for his work in classical conditioning. [475] It spent roughly 4.7% of its GDP on education in 2018. The sounds /t, d, ts, s, z, n, r/ are dental, that is, pronounced with the tip of the tongue against the teeth rather than against the alveolar ridge. [20] The current name of the country, code: rus promoted to code: ru (Rossiyacode: rus promoted to code: ru ), comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Rus', Rossa spelled code: ell promoted to code: el (Rosacode: ell promoted to code: el pronounced[rosia]) in Modern Greek. Once commonly used by the majority of those living outside Russia, transliteration is being used less frequently by Russian-speaking typists in favor of the extension of Unicode character encoding, which fully incorporates the Russian alphabet. [394] Zhores Alferov contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. The phoneme /ts/ is generally considered to be always hard; however, loan words such as and some other neologisms contain /ts/ through the word-building processes (e.g. . . By the early 18th century, Russia had vastly expanded through conquest, annexation, and the efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. Mike Myrianthis, a Greek oil industry veteran, believes that whoever bombed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline opened a can of worms. [231] They include 45 biosphere reserves,[235] 64 national parks, and 101 nature reserves. It is the native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European language family. A Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro in central Ukraine has left at least 40 people dead, making it one of the deadliest single attacks of the war. [43] Since then the trend of language policy in Russia has been standardization in both the restricted sense of reducing dialectical barriers between ethnic Russians, and the broader sense of expanding the use of Russian alongside or in favour of other languages that exist within the borders of the Russian Empire, and the later Soviet Union and Russian Federation. The Russian-imposed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, has posted to Telegram to say that in total the air defences of the Crimean city repulsed 10 drones from Ukraine this morning. [citation needed], The political reforms of Peter the Great ( , Pytr Velky) were accompanied by a reform of the alphabet, and achieved their goal of secularization and Westernization. The Russian invaders are preparing to defend the city of Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, by setting up barracks and ammunition storage points in the basements of residential buildings. : -? Cyberwarfare and airspace violations, along with electoral interference, have been used to increase perceptions of Russian power. The first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus', arose in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire. Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Ino-European family. The next day the Constituent Assembly was dissolved by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. [226] The region along the Lower Volga and Caspian Sea coast, as well as some southernmost slivers of Siberia, possess a semi-arid climate. Federal regions also have their own departments of health that oversee local administration. 2 mins. proposes special tribunal to investigate Russian crimes in Ukraine", "The EU wants a court to probe Russian war crime claims. [352] As of 2016[update], Russia has the world's fifth-largest road network, with 1.5 millionkm of roads,[353] while its road density is among the world's lowest. Its population of about 141.7 million includes well over 100 ethnic groups, though the majority are ethnic Russians. [226] The coldest month is January (February on the coastline); the warmest is usually July. On the ruins of peasant multilingua, in the context of developing heavy industry, a qualitatively new entity can be said to emergethe general language of the working class capitalism has the tendency of creating the general urban language of a given society. The most common type of federal subject with a governor and locally elected legislature. [420], According to the World Tourism Organization, Russia was the sixteenth-most visited country in the world, and the tenth-most visited country in Europe, in 2018, with over 24.6 million visits. In the 1930s, Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia. [349] Economists suggest the sanctions will have a long-term effect over the Russian economy. [295][296], Since 2004, Freedom House has ranked Russia as "not free" in its Freedom in the World survey. [159], By 1991, economic and political turmoil began to boil over as the Baltic states chose to secede from the Soviet Union. [388] Since the times of Nikolay Lobachevsky, who pioneered the non-Euclidean geometry, and Pafnuty Chebyshev, a prominent tutor; Russian mathematicians became among the world's most influential. The Russian republic was established immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became a union republic in 1922. [518], There are many popular non-public holidays. [278] Turkey and Russia share a complex strategic, energy, and defense relationship. [178] In 1992, most consumer price controls were eliminated, causing extreme inflation and significantly devaluing the rouble. (mlodets "fine young man"), (uznyu "I shall learn it") (uznay "I recognize it"), (otrezt "to be cutting") (otrzat "to have cut"); to indicate the proper pronunciation of uncommon words, especially personal and family names, like (afra, "scandal, affair"), (gru, "guru"), (Garca), (Olsha), (Fermi), and to show which is the stressed word in a sentence, for example ? Russian grammar encompasses: The spoken language has been influenced by the literary one but continues to preserve characteristic forms. [537], After the reforms of Peter the Great, Russia's architecture became influenced by Western European styles. 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Only about 25% of them are ethnic Russians, however. 31 Dec 1999: Putin Presidency begins in Russia. Contains many dialectal, local, and obsolete words. [567] Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protg Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. ", "Russia's Su-57 Heavy Fighter Bomber: Is It Really a Fifth-Generation Aircraft? [615] Television is the most popular medium in Russia. Stress marks are mandatory in lexical dictionaries and books for children or Russian learners. Soledar has been the centre of Russian aggression in recent days as it lies [citation needed], In terms of actual grammar, there are three tenses in Russian past, present, and future and each verb has two aspects (perfective and imperfective). After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Moscow claimed succession to the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire. . . [51] 50% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 19% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work. [390] Sofya Kovalevskaya was a pioneer among women in mathematics in the 19th century. South Africa is allowing Chinese and Russian warships to conduct naval exercises off its coast next month, raising concerns that the move could alienate trading partners. [137], The 19411945 period of World WarII is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. [3] It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, as well as the world's most widely spoken Slavic language. [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. [5], Russia has an adult literacy rate of 100%,[472] and has compulsory education for a duration of 11 years, exclusively for children aged 7 to 1718. [105] In the aftermath of signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that concluded hostilities with the Central Powers of World WarI; Bolshevist Russia surrendered most of its western territories, which hosted 34% of its population, 54% of its industries, 32% of its agricultural land, and roughly 90% of its coal mines. Russian was used not only on 89.8% of .ru sites, but also on 88.7% of sites with the former Soviet Union domain .su. [7] In 2009, it recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years; and since the 2010s, Russia has seen increased population growth due to declining death rates, increased birth rates and increased immigration. [478] The oldest and largest universities in Russia are Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University. [199] Putin and Russian-installed leaders signed treaties of accession, internationally unrecognized and widely denounced as illegal, despite the fact that Russian forces have been unable to fully occupy any of the four regions. Russian is written using a Cyrillic alphabet. The Russian perspective. [63], Led by Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow, the united army of Russian principalities inflicted a milestone defeat on the Mongol-Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. [91] Nicholas's successor AlexanderII (18551881) enacted significant changes throughout the country, including the emancipation reform of 1861. [99][102][103][104] In 2012, A. L. Arefyev published a new study "Russian language at the turn of the 20th21st centuries", in which he confirmed his conclusion about the trend of weakening of the Russian language after the Soviet Union's collapse in various regions of the world (findings published in 2013 in the journal "Demoskop Weekly"). [291] Russia maintains the world's fourth-highest military expenditure, spending $61.7 billion in 2020. The standard language, based on the Moscow dialect, possesses heavy stress and moderate variation in pitch. [53], In 2005, Russian was the most widely taught foreign language in Mongolia,[73] and was compulsory in Year 7 onward as a second foreign language in 2006.[20]. 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. AlexanderII was assassinated in 1881 by revolutionary terrorists. [84] The morphology features a palatalized final /t/ in 3rd person forms of verbs (this is unpalatalized in the Standard and Northern dialects). [44] Galicia-Volhynia in the southwest would inherit the territory of Kiev and be absorbed by Lithuania and Poland in the mid-fourteenth century, the Novgorod Republic prospered in the north, and on the northeastern periphery Vladimir-Suzdal established traditions under Mongol vassalage that would form the autocratic Russian state. 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[51] The 2009 census states that 482,200 people speak Russian as a native language, or 8.99% of the population. [419] Russia had 172 active satellites in space in April 2022, the world's third-highest. [473] It grants free education to its citizens by constitution. [30] Russian is one of two official languages aboard the International Space Station,[31] as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations.[32]. Also, the second palatalization of velars did not occur there, so the so-called (from the Proto-Slavic diphthong *ai) did not cause /k, , x/ to shift to /ts, dz, s/; therefore, where Standard Russian has ('chain'), the form [kep] is attested in earlier texts. [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. 2017. 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%. [132] Subsequently, the Germans were dealt major defeats first at the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 19421943,[133] and then in the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943. They are the [47] After them came the Pechenegs who created a large confederacy, which was subsequently taken over by the Cumans and the Kipchaks. [589] Vladimir Lenin, a major revolutionary, developed a variant of communism known as Leninism. [131]:175186 Although the Wehrmacht had considerable early success, their attack was halted in the Battle of Moscow. [213], Russia has nine major mountain ranges, and they are found along the southernmost regions, which share a significant portion of the Caucasus Mountains (containing Mount Elbrus, which at 5,642m (18,510ft) is the highest peak in Russia and Europe);[7] the Altai and Sayan Mountains in Siberia; and in the East Siberian Mountains and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East (containing Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at 4,750m (15,584ft) is the highest active volcano in Eurasia). International Journal of Russian Stidies. This article incorporates text from a free content work. , ). It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering 17,098,246 square kilometres (6,601,670sqmi), and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Percentage of ethnic Russians by region according to the 2010 census. [51] 26% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 5% used it as the main language with family, friends, or at work.[52]. 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