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Russian conquest of Siberia
Russian conquest of Siberia: Muscovy's 16th–18th century eastward expansion, beginning with Yermak's 1581–1585 campaign against the Khanate of Sibir and Kuchum Khan, driven by the fur trade, reaching the Pacific and Alaska, and debated as colonization versus colonialism.
Russian intervention in Hungary
The Russian intervention in Hungary was the Russian Empire's 1849 campaign against the Hungarian Revolution, undertaken at Austria's request with about 200,000 men under Field Marshal Ivan Paskevich.
Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war
Russia's intervention in the Syrian civil war began with airstrikes on 30 September 2015 supporting Bashar al-Assad; a limited expeditionary campaign costing about $1 billion a year that kept Assad in power until his December 2024 fall, after which Russia retained bases at Hmeimim and Tartus under a 2026 joint training-center agreement.
Russian invasion of Ukraine (Російське вторгнення в Україну)
Russian invasion of Ukraine (Російське вторгнення в Україну), also called the full-scale invasion, began 24 February 2022 from Belarus, Russia, and Crimea, escalating the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian war; Russia occupies about 20 percent of Ukraine with over one million casualties.
Russian Liberation Army (Русская освободительная армия)
Russian Liberation Army (ROA, Русская освободительная армия), collaborationist force of Soviet POWs led by Andrei Vlasov under German command; formally the KONR armed forces from late 1944; its 1st Division briefly fought in the Prague Uprising, May 1945.
Russian occupation of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Partial Russian occupation of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, also called the Dnipropetrovsk region incursion, beginning late June 2025 with the village Dachne; Russia claims a buffer zone, Ukraine counterattacked in 2026.
Russian occupation of Ili
The Russian occupation of Ili was the Russian Empire's seizure of the Ili region of Xinjiang from Qing China in June 1871, ended by the 1881 Treaty of Saint Petersburg.
Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast
Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast (Херсонська область): Russia's March-November 2022 occupation of southern Ukraine's only captured regional capital, its attempted annexation, documented abuses, and the continuing left-bank occupation and drone campaign.
Russian Provisional Government
Russian Provisional Government (Временное правительство): supreme executive-legislative authority of Russia, 2 March to 25 October (old/new style) 1917, formed by the Duma Committee and Petrograd Soviet under Prince Lvov, later Kerensky, and overthrown by the Bolsheviks in October.
Russian Revolution of 1905 (Революция 1905 года)
The Russian Revolution of 1905 (Революция 1905 года), the First Russian Revolution, began with Bloody Sunday in January 1905, produced the October Manifesto and the first soviets, and ended with the June 1907 coup.
Russian sabotage operations in Europe
Russian sabotage operations in Europe: GRU-directed covert campaign of arson, rail sabotage, undersea cable attacks, and drone incursions since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, exceeding 210 tracked incidents.
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-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.
Russo-Caucasian conflict
Russo-Caucasian conflict, or Caucasian War (1817–1864): Russia's nineteenth-century conquest of the Caucasus, resisted by the Naqshbandi Imamate under Shamil and by Circassian tribes, ending with Shamil's 1859 surrender, the 1864 western conquest, and mass Circassian expulsion to the Ottoman Empire.
Russo-Georgian War (რუსეთ-საქართველოს ომი (2008))
Russo-Georgian War (რუსეთ-საქართველოს ომი (2008)), also the Five-Day War or August War: war between Georgia and Russia, 7–16 August 2008, over South Ossetia and Abkhazia; ended with Russian occupation and recognition of both regions.
Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War (日露戦争, 러일전쟁), 1904–1905 conflict between the Russian Empire and Empire of Japan over Korea and Manchuria; Japan won via Mukden and Tsushima, and the Roosevelt-mediated Treaty of Portsmouth gave it Korea, south Manchuria, and southern Sakhalin.
Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)
The Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667, also called the Thirteen Years' War, ended with the Truce of Andrusovo, under which the Commonwealth ceded Smolensk, Kiev, and Left-bank Ukraine.
Russo-Turkish War (1672–1681)
The Russo-Turkish War of 1672–1681 was a conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire over the Cossack Hetmanate, marked by two sieges of Chyhyryn and ended by the Treaty of Bakhchysarai in 1681.
Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700)
Russo-Turkish War of 1686–1700, part of the Great Turkish War (War of the Holy League); Russia joined the Holy League via the 1686 Treaty of Perpetual Peace, fought failed Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689, took Azov in 1696, and ended the war with the Truce of Karlowitz and the Treaty of Constantinople of 1700.
Russo-Turkish War (1710–1713)
Russo-Turkish War (1710–1713), Turkish-Russkaya war, Pruth Campaign: war in which the Ottomans, urged by Charles XII, trapped Peter I's army on the Pruth in 1711, forcing Russia to cede Azov by the 1713 Peace of Adrianople.
Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)
The Russo-Turkish War of 1735 to 1739 was a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, joined by Austria in 1737, ended by the Treaty of Nissa in 1739.
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), or Second Eastern War: Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire in a three-phase Balkan campaign including the siege of Plevna, won the Treaty of San Stefano of 3 March 1878, then saw its gains largely revised by the Congress of Berlin.
Russo-Ukrainian war
Russo-Ukrainian war: conflict between Russia and Ukraine beginning with the 2014 annexation of Crimea and Donbas fighting, escalating with Russia's full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022; marked by attrition warfare, massed drone use, heavy casualties, energy-infrastructure strikes, and shifting Western support.
Rwandan Civil War
Rwandan Civil War (1990-1994), also called the Struggle for Liberation: war between Habyarimana's Hutu government and the Tutsi-exile RPF, ending with the Arusha Accords' failure, the 1994 genocide, and RPF victory.
Rwandan genocide
The 1994 Rwandan genocide: the mass killing of 800,000 to one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu in about 100 days after Habyarimana's assassination, followed by ICTR, domestic, and gacaca prosecutions.
Rwandan genocide trials
The Rwandan genocide trials prosecuted the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi through three parallel systems: the ICTR in Tanzania, Rwanda's national courts, and community gacaca courts.
Rwandan Patriotic Front invasion of Rwanda
The Rwandan Patriotic Front invasion of Rwanda began on 1 October 1990, when about 7,000 mostly Tutsi exiles from Uganda crossed the northern border, starting the Rwandan Civil War.
Rwenzururu movement
The Rwenzururu movement was a secessionist movement of the Bakonzo and Baamba peoples of western Uganda that proclaimed a kingdom in the Rwenzori mountains from 1962 to 1982.
Saad bin Laden
Saad bin Laden (سعد بن لادن), son of Osama bin Laden and Najwa Ghanem, was an al-Qaeda operative held under house arrest in Iran after 9/11, designated by the U.S. Treasury in 2009, and reportedly killed in a 2009 drone strike in Pakistan, later confirmed by Abbottabad documents.
Saar Offensive
Saar Offensive: French attack into Germany's Saarland, 7 September to 17 October 1939, under Gamelin to aid Poland; limited advance, then withdrawal to the Maginot Line.