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Russell Zuma
Russell Zuma, born Nkosikhona Russell Zuma, is a South African amapiano vocalist and songwriter from Durban, known for 'Healer Ntliziyo Yam', the multi-platinum 'Angikaze', and his 2024 album Love Season.
Russell's paradox
Russell's paradox is a contradiction in naive set theory, found by Bertrand Russell around 1901, concerning the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.
Russell's teapot
Russell's teapot, from Bertrand Russell's unpublished 1952 essay "Is There a God?", is a china teapot imagined orbiting the Sun between Earth and Mars, too small for telescopes, illustrating that the burden of proof for unfalsifiable claims lies on the claimant, not the doubter.
Russell's viper
Russell's viper (Daboia russelii, formerly Vipera russelii) is a large venomous true viper of South Asia, named after Patrick Russell. A 'big four' snake causing India's highest snakebite mortality, with regionally variable venom and IUCN Least Concern status.
Russeln
Russeln is a three-player, 24-card Austrian point-trick game from Melk, a local version of 1001 (Tausendeins) in the 1000/Thousand marriage-game family, with no talon, no minimum bid, and marriages that change trumps.
Rüsselsheim
Rüsselsheim am Main, a Hessian town between Frankfurt and Mainz, site of the 1399 Katzenelnbogen fortress, the 1435 first Riesling record, and Adam Opel's 1862 factory that made it a carmaking center.
Russet Perry
Russet Perry is an American politician and attorney, a Democratic member of the Virginia Senate from the 31st district since 2024 who previously worked as a Loudoun County prosecutor and CIA officer.
Russi Roman Villa
Villa romana di Russi: a Roman villa urbano-rustica near Ravenna, Italy, discovered in 1938 in a clay quarry. Over 3,500 m², active from the Republican era to the 4th century, it supplied the imperial fleet at Ravenna and is among northern Italy's best preserved villas.
Russi Taylor
Russi Taylor (1944–2019) was an American voice actress who was the official voice of Minnie Mouse from 1986 until her death, and voiced characters on DuckTales and The Simpsons.
Russia (Россия)
Russia (Россия), the Russian Federation, is the world's largest country by area (17,098,242 sq km), spanning 11 time zones across Europe and Asia, with over 143 million people, a semi-presidential federation under President Putin, and a resource-rich economy under sanctions since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone, or Зона травмы, is Adam Curtis's 2022 seven-part BBC iPlayer documentary built from BBC Moscow archive footage, narrated by block-capital captions, covering the Soviet collapse through Putin's rise.
Russia 200
Russia 200, or Cargo 200 (Груз 200), is the Soviet and Russian military codename for transporting dead soldiers' bodies home. Originating in the Afghan war's Black Tulip flights, it continued through Chechnya and the Ukraine war.
Russia and Europe
Russia and Europe (Россия и Европа) is an 1869 book by Nikolay Danilevsky arguing that Russia and the Slavic world form a cultural-historical type separate from Western Europe.
Russia and the United Nations
Russia and the United Nations: the Russian Federation, continuing the USSR's founding membership of 24 October 1945, holds a permanent Security Council seat under Charter Articles 23 and 27, with 120 Soviet and 43 Russian vetoes since 1946.
Russia and weapons of mass destruction
Russia holds the world's largest nuclear arsenal, about 5,420 warheads; its 2024 doctrine widened nuclear use conditions, and New START, which Russia suspended in 2023, expired in February 2026.
Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio de Janeiro): Russian team vetted after the McLaren Report on state-sponsored doping; athletics and weightlifting excluded, 271 of 389 athletes cleared, last Games under the Russian flag.
Russia at the Olympics
Russia at the Olympics: Russian athletes' participation as Imperial Russia (1900-1912), USSR (1952-1988), Russian Federation (1994-2016), and under neutral banners OAR, ROC, and AIN after doping and Ukraine-related sanctions, with 553 medals and reinstatement toward LA 2028.
Russia in the 2026 Iran war
Russia in the 2026 Iran war: Moscow's non-belligerent support for Iran after US-Israeli strikes began 28 February 2026, including satellite targeting data, drone technology, arms commitments, energy windfalls, and mediation offers, while avoiding direct intervention.
Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest
Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest: competed 1994 to 2021 with 24 entries, one win (Dima Bilan, 2008), hosted Moscow 2009, excluded by the EBU in 2022, then launched rival Intervision.
Russia in the Seven Years' War
Russia in the Seven Years' War (Семилетняя война) was the Russian Empire's participation from 1757 to 1762 in the coalition against Prussia, winning at Gross-Jägersdorf and Kunersdorf.
Russia in World War I
Russia in World War I was the Russian Empire's participation in the Allied powers from 1914 to 1918. It fielded the largest army and faced a home-front crisis.
Russia men's national ice hockey team
Russia men's national ice hockey team (Сборная России по хоккею с шайбой), governed by the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia and IIHF successor to the Soviet team: 27 world and 9 Olympic golds, competed as OAR/ROC, banned from IIHF play since February 2022.
Russia national football team (Сборная России по футболу)
Сборная России: Russia's men's national football team under the Russian Football Union, UEFA/FIFA member. Lineage includes USSR 1960 Euro title and 1956/1988 Olympic gold; suspended from FIFA/UEFA competitions since February 2022.
Russia of the Future (Россия будущего)
Russia of the Future (Россия будущего) is Alexei Navalny's liberal Russian opposition party, founded at a congress on May 19, 2018 after failed People's Alliance and Progress Party attempts; authorities refused registration, and Navalny led it until his 2024 death in prison.
Russia under Vladimir Putin
Russia under Vladimir Putin: the political system since 31 December 1999 (prime minister 2008–2012), marked by centralized personalist rule, 2020 constitutional changes allowing rule until 2036, the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and intensified repression.
Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
The Russia–Ukraine gas disputes were conflicts over natural gas pricing, debt, and transit that repeatedly interrupted Russian supplies to Europe, most sharply in 2006, 2009, and 2014.
Russia–Ukraine relations
Russia–Ukraine relations: bilateral ties from post-Soviet coexistence, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, and gas disputes through the 2014 Crimea annexation, the failed Minsk agreements, and the 2022 full-scale invasion.
Russia–United Kingdom relations
Russia–United Kingdom relations: bilateral ties established December 1991 after the USSR dissolved, deteriorating through the Litvinenko and Salisbury poisonings, Crimea 2014, and the 2022 invasion, now at their lowest level since the Cold War.
Russia–United States relations
Russia–United States relations: diplomatic ties since 1809, Cold War rivalry managed by SALT, INF, and START treaties, post-Soviet deterioration after Crimea 2014, and the February 2026 expiration of New START amid the Ukraine war.
Russian Academy
The Russian Academy (Российская академия) was a scholarly center in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Russian language, founded by Catherine II in 1783 under Princess Dashkova.