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Russia Company
A Dictionary of British History
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Russia Company The pioneers of a North‐East Passage to Russia were rewarded by the English government in 1555 with a trading charter with exclusive rights. The tsar also granted them special privileges. The charter was confirmed by an Act of 1566. Fur and timber were imported, cloth exported.
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Russia & FSU News Bulletin (Daily News Briefs: DEC 09, 2004).
Newspaper article from: Russia & FSU General News; 12/9/2004; 700+ words
; - RUSSIA-GREECE RELATIONS AT TOP POLITICAL LEVEL...PROTOCOL - SPAIN TO STEP UP COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA IN FIGHTING TERRORISM - AMBASSADOR - FRADKOV...DELIVERIES TO AZERBAIJAN MAY RESUME DECEMBER 10 - RUSSIA LIKELY TO SIGN AGREEMENT WITH PARIS CLUB...
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Russia takes over space control system from Tajikistan as part of debt.
News Wire article from: Times of Central Asia; 7/18/2008; 700+ words
; ...DUSHANBE, Jul.18, (TCA Editions) -- Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on July...the settlement of Tajikistan's debt to Russia by transferring the Nurek optical-electronic...the settlement of Tajikistan's debt to Russia for state credits and the addendum to...
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Russia First: Breaking with the West.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Demokratizatsiya; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Russia First: Breaking with the West. Peter Truscott...drastic turn inward and eastward. With Russia First, European Parliament member Peter...this sudden shift. Truscott argues that Russia traded its exclusive emulation of the West...
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Russia & FSU News Bulletin (Daily News Briefs: MAY 15, 2002).
Newspaper article from: Russia & FSU General News; 5/15/2002; 700+ words
; RUSSIA, NATO AGREE TO ESTABLISH COUNCIL OF 20 REYKJAVIK. May 15 (Interfax) - Russia and NATO sealed an agreement to establish a new...Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said that the Russia-NATO council is an organization in which Russia...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Russia looks at the world: westward no?
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/4/1992; 700+ words
; ...meeting of the Group of Seven underlines Russia's main foreign-policy goal: to join...really the place in the world that a reborn Russia should seek? IN THE 19th century, two...dominated political and intellectual life in Russia. The westernisers wanted to use European...
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Russia's Efforts in the Iraq Crisis Don't Tip Foreign Policy Balance; Primakov Tries to Retain Independence, Avoid Conflict With U.S.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; Russia's successful mediation in the Iraq arms inspection crisis...over, Russian observers say. But they pointedly argue that Russia cannot afford a break with Washington. "Russia is likely to deviate from the United States only on the margins...
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Russia patches up space program.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 3/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...illustrated these hard times as well as Russia's role in the rocky beginnings of the...Station. The U.S. thought bringing Russia into the project would save it $2 billion; instead Russia cost the effort $3 billion. Now, as...
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Russia Patches Up Space Program.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 3/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...illustrated these hard times as well as Russia's role in the rocky beginnings of the...Station. The U.S. thought bringing Russia into the project would save it $2 billion; instead Russia cost the effort $3 billion. Now, as...
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Russia's Geography and Climate: John Etty examines how far history has been moulded by environment.(Talking Points)
Magazine article from: History Review; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...geography. Writers, it seems, believe Russia's physical environment is either so...possible to overstate the impact that Russia's geography has had on its history...coincidences. Nevertheless, the nature of Russia's physical environment has undoubtedly...
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Russia the not-so-great.(Russian political wrangling)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/20/1996; 700+ words
; ...to show that, for all its woes, Russia is still a world-class power. At stake is more than presidential pride. Russia's Communists, whose candidate is...election, accuse the West of humiliating Russia, and Mr Yeltsin of letting it happen...
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Russia Company
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
RUSSIA COMPANY In the early modern period, different...membership, directors, and regulations. The Russia Company (also known as the Muscovy Company...its discovery of a viable water route to Russia (the White Sea or Archangel route) and...
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Russia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Russia Country statistics area: 17,075,000sq km (6,592,800sq...The Urals form a natural border between European and Asian Russia ( Siberia ). About 25% of Russia lies in Europe, w of the Urals. European Russia contains about...
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Democratic Russia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
DEMOCRATIC RUSSIA The movement Democratic Russia (DR) is a relic of the end of the Soviet epoch, when opposition...opposition. Its predecessor was the bloc of candidates "Democratic Russia" in the March 1990 elections for people's deputies to the...
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Elizabeth (Russia) (1709–1762; Ruled 1741–1762)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
ELIZABETH (RUSSIA) (1709 – 1762; ruled 1741 – 1762) ELIZABETH (RUSSIA) (1709 – 1762; ruled 1741 – 1762), empress of Russia. Elizabeth Petrovna, the daughter of Peter the Great and his second wife...
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Russia, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
RUSSIA, RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA, RELATIONS WITH. During the Revolutionary War, American leaders...with as many nations as possible, and Congress hoped that tsarist Russia might be willing to not only recognize the new nation diplomatically...
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