All articles starting with R
22,461 articles
Rushana Buddha of Tōshōdai-ji
The Rushana Buddha of Tōshōdai-ji (盧舎那仏坐像) is a National Treasure seated statue of the cosmic Buddha Vairocana in Nara, Japan, carved in dry lacquer in the 8th century.
Rushden & Diamonds F.C.
Rushden & Diamonds F.C. was an English football club formed in 1992 from the merger of Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds, based at Nene Park, Irthlingborough. Conference champions in 2001 and Division Three champions in 2003, it was expelled from the Conference and dissolved in 2011.
Rushikesh Patel
Rushikesh Patel is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and minister in the Government of Gujarat, a four-time MLA from the Visnagar constituency first elected in 2007.
Rushmere (album)
Rushmere is the fifth studio album by English folk-rock band Mumford & Sons, released March 28, 2025 on Gentlemen of the Road/Island. First album in seven years after Delta, first as a trio after Winston Marshall's exit, co-produced with Dave Cobb.
Rushmore (film)
Rushmore is a 1998 American coming-of-age comedy directed by Wes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson, starring Jason Schwartzman in his film debut and Bill Murray.
Rushy Lagoon
Rushy Lagoon is a locality and farming property on the far north-east coast of Tasmania, whose floodplain wetland is part of the Flood Plain Lower Ringarooma River Ramsar site.
RusHydro
RusHydro (РусГидро) is Russia's state-controlled energy holding and largest hydropower producer, founded in 2004 and operating plants, grids, and retail supply across more than 30 regions.
Rusidava
Rusidava (Rusidaua), a Geto-Dacian settlement and Roman fort on the Olt limes in Dacia, attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana near Drăgășani, Romania; destroyed by the Carpi in 245–247 AD, with disputed location (Momotești vs Strejeștii de Jos).
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds (1942–2016) was a Latvian mathematician and computer scientist best known for Freivalds' algorithm, which verifies matrix multiplication in quadratic time using randomness.
Rusippisir
Rusippisir, also rendered Rusuvisir, was a Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Roman town on the Algerian coast at Taksebt on Cape Tedlès, with its port at nearby Tigzirt.
Rusizi District
Rusizi District (Akarere ka Rusizi) is a district of Western Province, Rwanda, at the southern end of Lake Kivu bordering the DRC and Burundi. It had 485,529 residents in 2022, contains the secondary city of Rusizi/Kamembe, and is a major cross-border trade hub.
Rusk
Rusk is twice-baked bread, dried until hard and crisp; known as beschuit, zwieback, biscotti, or beskuit, historically ship's provisions, now a tea-time snack and sausage ingredient.
Ruska Besida
Ruska Besida (Руська бесіда, "Ruthenian Conversation"), known from 1928 as Ukrainska Besida, was a Ukrainian cultural society in Lviv, founded in 1861 and active until 1939.
Ruska Roma (Руска рома)
Ruska Roma (Руска рома), or Russian Roma, also called Xaladitka, are the largest and one of the oldest Romani groups in Russia; Orthodox, Russian-speaking externally, speaking the Ruska Romani dialect, and the source of most early Soviet Romani activists.
Ruskeala Mountain Park
Ruskeala Mountain Park (Горный парк «Рускеала») is a tourist park in Karelia, Russia, opened in 2005 on flooded former marble quarries, with the Marble Canyon as its centerpiece.
Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (born May 19, 1934, Kasauli) is an Indian author of British descent in English, known for Himalayan short stories and children's books; first novel The Room on the Roof won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan recipient.
Rusko
Rusko, real name Christopher William Mercer, is an English dubstep producer and DJ from Yorkshire whose tracks 'Cockney Thug' and 'Woo Boost' carried dubstep to American audiences.
Ruslaan
Ruslaan (रुसलान), 2024 Hindi action thriller directed by Karan Lalit Butani, starring Aayush Sharma as a terrorist's son who joins RAW while posing as a music teacher; released 26 April 2024, a box-office failure with negative reviews.
Ruslan and Ludmila
Ruslan and Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила) is a narrative poem in six cantos by Alexander Pushkin, completed in 1820, telling how the knight Ruslan rescues his bride from a sorcerer.
Ruslan Chagaev (Руслан Шамилевич Чагаев)
Ruslan Chagaev (Руслан Шамилович Чагаев), "White Tyson", Uzbek heavyweight boxer born 1978 in Andijon; two-time WBA heavyweight champion (2007-09, 2014-16), who beat Nikolay Valuev and lost to Wladimir Klitschko in 2009.
Ruslan Gazizov
Ruslan Gazizov (Руслан Газизов), born 2004, Russian ice hockey forward; 2020 Winter Youth Olympics gold medalist, four OHL seasons with London, now a VHL forward for Diesel Penza after one KHL game with Torpedo.
Ruslan Khasbulatov (Руслан Имранович Хасбулатов)
Ruslan Khasbulatov (Руслан Имранович Хасбулатов), 1942–2023, Chechen-born Russian economist and speaker of the Supreme Soviet from 1991; led the 1993 parliamentary rebellion against Yeltsin, was arrested, amnestied in 1994, and returned to teaching.
Ruslan Malinovskyi
Ruslan Malinovskyi (Маліновський Руслан Володимирович), born 1993 in Zhytomyr, is a Ukrainian midfielder of Atalanta, Genoa, and Trabzonspor, a Ukraine international with 63 caps, known for long-range goals and a 149-day return from a 2024 ankle fracture.
Ruslan Medzhitov
Ruslan Medzhitov is an Uzbekistan-born American immunologist, Sterling Professor at Yale School of Medicine, whose 1997 work with Charles Janeway established Toll-like receptors as receptors of innate immunity.
Ruslan Nurudinov
Ruslan Nurudinov (Руслан Шамильевич Нурудинов), born 1991, is an Uzbek heavyweight weightlifter, 2016 Olympic champion at 105 kg (431 kg, Olympic record 237 kg clean and jerk), three-time world champion, and 242 kg clean and jerk world record holder.
Ruslan Oliinyk
Ruslan Yuriyovych Oliinyk, born 1985 in Nikopol, is a Ukrainian politician and lieutenant colonel appointed Deputy Minister for Restoration, Infrastructure and Transport in August 2026.
Ruslan Osypenko
Ruslan Osypenko is a Ukrainian police officer and public administrator who has served as head of the Chernivtsi Oblast Military Administration since 2026, after a career with the National Police in Donetsk Oblast.
Ruslan Provodnikov (Руслан Михайлович Проводников)
Ruslan Provodnikov (Руслан Михайлович Проводников), "The Russian Rocky", Russian boxer born 1984 in Beryozovo, Siberia; WBO light welterweight champion 2013-2014, 2013 Fight of the Year vs Timothy Bradley, record 25-5 (18 KOs), retired 2016.
Ruslan Savchenko
Ruslan Savchenko (Руслан Олександрович Савченко), Ukrainian weightlifter born 1971; 1993 and 1994 World Championship middleweight medalist, 1994 European champion, set 76 kg snatch (170.0 kg) and total (370.0 kg) world records in 1993, and placed 11th at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Ruslan Stefanchuk
Ruslan Stefanchuk (Руслан Стефанчук), born 1975 in Ternopil, is a Ukrainian legal scholar and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada since October 2021, Servant of the People deputy, wartime speaker who presided over the 2022 martial law vote.