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Russian Sleep Experiment
Russian Sleep Experiment (Русский эксперимент со сном) is a fictional creepypasta urban legend about a 1940s Soviet sleep-deprivation test on five prisoners; posted 2010 by OrangeSoda, debunked by Snopes, its famous photo shows a Halloween prop.
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия)
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (РСДРП, RSDLP), Marxist party founded in Minsk 1898; split 1903 into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks; Bolsheviks became the Russian Communist Party in 1918, Mensheviks suppressed by 1925.
Russian sovereign default 1918
The Russian sovereign default of 1918 was the Bolshevik repudiation of all tsarist and Provisional government debts, 60 billion roubles, the largest sovereign default in history.
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика)
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR, Российская СФСР) was the largest republic of the USSR, proclaimed 1917, a founding Soviet republic in 1922, renamed the Russian Federation in 1991 as its legal successor.
Russian State (Российское государство) (1918–1920)
Russian State (Российское государство), 1918–1920: principal White anti-Bolshevik government, founded as the five-member Ufa Directory on 23 September 1918, ruled by Admiral Kolchak as Supreme Ruler from the Omsk coup of 18 November 1918 until authority passed to Denikin in January 1920.
Russian submarine Kursk
The Russian submarine Kursk (Курск, K-141) was a nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine that sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000 during a fleet exercise, killing all 118 aboard.
Russian Symbolism
Russian Symbolism (Русский символизм) was the first and largest current of Russian modernism, a literary movement of the 1890s to 1910s that dominated the Silver Age.
Russian Synodal Bible (Синодальный перевод)
The Russian Synodal Bible (Синодальный перевод) is the complete Russian Bible translation published in 1876 under the Holy Synod's blessing, still the standard Russian text.
Russian Tea Room
The Russian Tea Room is a historic Russian-themed restaurant at 150 West 57th Street, Manhattan, founded by Russian Imperial Ballet members in 1926, famed for its bear aquarium, Fabergé egg tree, celebrity clientele, and 1999 Warner LeRoy rebuild.
Russian tortoise
The Russian tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii), also called Horsfield's or Central Asian tortoise, is a small herbivorous tortoise of dry Central Asian habitats, listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.
Russian ultimatum and dissolution of the Second Majlis (1911)
The Russian ultimatum of 1911 was a demand that Qajar Iran dismiss its American treasurer-general Morgan Shuster, leading the regent Naser al-Molk to dissolve the Second Majlis.
Russian ultimatum of 1911
The Russian ultimatum of 1911 (التیماتوم روسیه) was Russia's November 1911 demand that Iran dismiss its American treasurer-general Morgan Shuster; Iran submitted, dissolving the Majles in December.
Russian undesirable organizations law
The Russian undesirable organizations law, Federal Law 129-FZ of 2015, lets the Prosecutor General ban foreign NGOs deemed security threats; 269 entities were listed by October 2025.
Russian units of measurement
Russian units of measurement were the traditional weights and measures of Russia and the Russian Empire, including the arshin, verst, pood, and desyatina, replaced by metric units in the 1920s.
Russian uranium import ban
The Russian uranium import ban is a US law banning imports of Russian low-enriched uranium, signed by President Biden in May 2024 and running through 2040.
Russian village 'Shuvalovka'
Russian village 'Shuvalovka' (Шуваловка) is an ethnographic leisure and entertainment complex in the Peterhof area of Saint Petersburg, Russia, opened in 2003 and named for Count Ivan Shuvalov.
Russian Volunteer Corps (Русский добровольческий корпус)
The Russian Volunteer Corps (Русский добровольческий корпус, RDK) is a unit of Russian citizens fighting for Ukraine, formed in August 2022 and known for cross-border raids into Russia.
Russian warship, go fuck yourself (Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй)
Snake Island phrase (Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй) spoken by border guard Roman Hrybov to the Russian cruiser Moskva on 24 February 2022; became Ukraine's rallying slogan, Ukrposhta stamp, and a refused EU trademark.
Russian wheat aphid
Russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia), a global phytotoxic aphid pest of wheat and barley from Central Asia; spreads via parthenogenesis, causes chlorotic streaking and up to 95% yield loss, and does not transmit viruses.
Russian Winter
Russian Winter, or "General Winter," is the idea that Russia's severe cold defeats invaders, tied to Napoleon's 1812 retreat and Germany's 1941 failure before Moscow; historians show both armies were broken by logistics and losses before the cold.
Russian Women
Russian Women (Русские женщины) is a narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written 1871 to 1872, about the wives of the Decembrists who followed their husbands into Siberian exile.
Russian-American Company (Российско-американская компания)
The Russian-American Company (Российско-американская компания) was a chartered Russian joint-stock fur-trade monopoly, established by Tsar Paul I in 1799, that governed Russian America, including Alaska, until the territory was sold to the United States in 1867.
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine: Crimea (annexed 2014) and parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, about 20% of Ukraine, annexed by Russia but unrecognized internationally.
Russian–American Telegraph
The Russian–American Telegraph, also called the Collins Overland Telegraph, was a Western Union project from 1865 to 1867 to link North America and Europe by telegraph through Alaska and Siberia.
Russians
Russians (Russkiye) are an East Slavic people native to Russia, where they form the majority and the largest ethnic group, numbering over 105 million in the 2020 census.
Russians at War
Russians at War (2024) is Anastasia Trofimova's documentary, also called a Canada-France co-production, following seven months embedded without authorization with a Russian battalion in Ukraine; it premiered at Venice 2024 and sparked propaganda-versus-anti-war-film controversy at TIFF and other festivals.
Russians in Ukraine
Russians in Ukraine: the ethnic Russian minority and Russian-speaking population, 8.33 million (17.3%) at the 2001 census, concentrated in the east, south, and Crimea; shaped by imperial and Soviet migration, re-identification, and war since 2014.
Russification
Russification (русификация, Lithuanian rusinimas): imposition or spread of Russian language and culture over non-Russians in the Russian Empire, USSR, and post-Soviet states; distinguished from Russianization by measured loss of non-Russian identity.
Russkaya Literatura
Russkaya Literatura (Русская литература, Russian Literature) is a Russian academic journal on the history of Russian literature, founded in 1958 by the Pushkinskii Dom institute.
Russkaya Mysl
Russkaya Mysl (Русская мысль, "Russian Thought") was a monthly scientific, literary, and political journal published in Moscow from 1880 to 1918, founded by Vukol Lavrov and closed by the Bolsheviks.