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Rural purge
The rural purge was the mass cancellation of rural-themed television series, chiefly by CBS in 1971, to make way for shows aimed at younger, urban viewers.
Rural Revitalization Movement
The Rural Revitalization Movement (Korean: 농촌진흥운동) was a government-organized rural campaign run in colonial Korea by Japan's Government-General of Korea from 1932 to 1940, launched to overcome the crisis of colonial rule after the world depression.
Rural settlement
Rural settlement: countryside communities from farmsteads to nucleated villages, living off land-based primary activities; classified as clustered, semi-clustered, hamleted, or dispersed, and linked to cities through trade and services.
Rural telephone cooperatives that dissolved
Rural telephone cooperatives that dissolved were member-owned phone companies begun by farmers in the 1890s, ended by sale, court order, or absorption by larger carriers.
Rural Utilities Service
The Rural Utilities Service, a lending agency within the United States Department of Agriculture, finances electric power, water treatment, telecommunications, and broadband in rural communities, inheriting programs of the Rural Electrification Administration.
Rural veterinary memoir as a literary genre
The rural veterinary memoir is a partially fictionalized autobiographical genre of episodic cases from a bygone country practice, best known through James Herriot's eight books.
Rurales
The Rurales, formally the Fuerzas Rurales de la Federación, were Mexico's federal rural police, created in 1861 under Benito Juárez, famed under Porfirio Díaz, and suppressed in 1914.
Ruri Rocks
Ruri Rocks (瑠璃の宝石, Introduction to Mineralogy) is Keiichirou Shibuya's mineral-collecting manga serialized in Harta since 2019, adapted into a 13-episode Studio Bind anime aired July to September 2025, following high schooler Ruri Tanigawa and mineralogy graduate student Nagi Arato.
Rurik (Рюрик)
Rurik (Рюрик, Old Norse Hrœríkr), legendary or semi-legendary Varangian prince invited to rule Novgorod in 862 per the Primary Chronicle, founder of the Rurikid dynasty that ruled until 1598; historicity disputed.
Rurik dynasty
The Rurik dynasty (Рюриковичи) was the princely clan descended, according to tradition, from the Varangian prince Rurik, invited to rule Novgorod around 862; its main line lost power in 1598.
Rurik Rostislavich
Rurik Rostislavich (Рюрик Ростиславич), baptized Vasily, was a Rurikid prince who held the throne of Kiev several times between the 1170s and 1210, ruling also Ovruch and Novgorod.
Rurouni Kenshin (2023 TV series)
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-) 2023 TV series: Liden Films reboot of Watsuki's manga, 24 episodes from July 6, 2023 on Fuji TV noitamina, new cast led by Soma Saito, followed by Kyoto Disturbance in 2024.
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心)
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-) is Nobuhiro Watsuki's 1994–1999 Weekly Shōnen Jump manga about reverse-blade swordsman Himura Kenshin, with 72 million copies sold, a 94-episode 1996 anime, 2023 remake, and 19.3-billion-yen live-action films.
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心) (film)
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心), the 2012 live-action film of Watsuki's manga directed by Keishi Otomo, starring Takeru Satoh as the non-killing ex-assassin Kenshin; earned about 3.0 billion yen and launched a five-film series.
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (るろうに剣心 京都大火編)
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (るろうに剣心 京都大火編) is the 2014 live-action film directed by Keishi Otomo, first half of the Kyoto arc two-parter, starring Takeru Satoh and Tatsuya Fujiwara; it grossed 5.22 billion yen in Japan.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (るろうに剣心 最終章 The Beginning)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (るろうに剣心 最終章 The Beginning) is a 2021 Japanese live-action film, fifth in the series, directed by Keishi Otomo, starring Takeru Satoh and Kasumi Arimura, adapting the manga's Remembrance arc about Kenshin's cross-shaped scar and Tomoe.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (るろうに剣心 最終章 The Final) is a 2021 Japanese live-action film directed by Keishi Ōtomo, the fourth and penultimate series entry, adapting the manga's Jinchū arc with Mackenyu as Enishi; released April 23, 2021, 138 minutes, followed by The Beginning.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (るろうに剣心 伝説の最期編) is a 2014 Japanese live-action action film directed by Keishi Ōtomo, the second half of the Kyoto arc two-parter, in which Kenshin trains with Hiko Seijūrō to defeat Shishio Makoto.
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen) is a 1999 four-episode Studio Deen OVA prequel directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, depicting Kenshin Himura's assassin past, his scar, and Tomoe Yukishiro, released in English as Samurai X by ADV Films.
Rury R. Holman
Rury R. Holman is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Diabetic Medicine at Oxford who designed the UKPDS trial and received the American Diabetes Association's 2024 Banting Medal.
Rus' expeditions against Constantinople
The Rus' expeditions against Constantinople (Походы руси на Константинополь) were naval campaigns by early Rus' princes against Byzantium from 860 to 1043, seeking plunder and trade privileges.
Rus' people
Rus' people: the medieval Scandinavian-origin traders and warriors (Rus', Old East Slavic русь) whose name came to cover the Rurikid dynasty, its lands, and the East Slavic population of Kievan Rus, claimed as ancestors by Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
Rus'-Byzantine Treaty of 911
The Rus'-Byzantine Treaty of 911 (Договор Руси с Византией 911 года) is a peace and trade agreement concluded at Constantinople in 911 between envoys of Grand Prince Oleg of Rus' and the Byzantine emperors.
Rus'-Byzantine Treaty of 971
The Rus'-Byzantine Treaty of 971 (Договор Руси с Византией 971 года) was a peace agreement between Prince Sviatoslav of Kiev and Emperor John I Tzimiskes.
Rus'-Byzantine War of 1043
The Rus'-Byzantine War of 1043 (Поход Руси на Константинополь) was a naval expedition by Yaroslav the Wise against Constantinople, wrecked by storm and Greek fire.
Rus'-Byzantine War of 907 and Treaty
The Rus'-Byzantine War of 907 (Поход Олега на Константинополь) is the campaign the Primary Chronicle attributes to Prince Oleg of Kiev against Constantinople, ending in a treaty.
Rus'–Byzantine treaties
Rus'–Byzantine treaties: 10th-century peace and trade agreements of 907, 911, 944, and 971 between Kievan rulers Oleg, Igor, and Sviatoslav and Byzantine emperors, preserved in Slavonic translation in the Primary Chronicle.
Rusa I
Rusa I (Rusas I), son of Sarduri II, was king of Urartu around 735–713 BC, rebuilding the kingdom before defeat by Sargon II of Assyria in 714 BC.
Rusa II
Rusa II, also written Rusas II, was king of Urartu from about 685 to 645 BC and its last great king, who built fortified cities against Cimmerian and Scythian raiders.
Rusa III
Rusa III, also known as Rusa, son of Erimena, was a king of Urartu who ruled the kingdom of Van at or near its end, probably in the late 7th century BC.