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Rump state
Rump state: the reduced remnant of a once larger state after secession, annexation, occupation, decolonization, or revolution, retaining the predecessor's legal identity; distinct from dissolution, exile governments, and breakaway states.
Run Chhoun
Run Peter Chhoun (ឈួន រ៉ន, born 1972) is a Cambodian-born Tiny Rascals Gang leader on California death row for 1995 home-invasion murders in San Bernardino, Sacramento, and Pomona; distinct from politician Rong Chhun.
Running the gauntlet
Running the gauntlet, formerly gantlope, is a corporal punishment in which an offender runs between two rows of men armed with sticks or ropes who strike him.
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.
Russell Brown (judge)
Russell Brown (born 1965) is a Canadian jurist and former puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (2015-2023), formerly a University of Alberta law professor, who resigned during a Canadian Judicial Council review.
Russell Bufalino
Russell Bufalino, born Rosario Alfredo Bufalino (1903–1994), was a Sicilian-born American Mafia boss who led the northeastern Pennsylvania crime family from Kingston for over three decades.
Russell Coleman
Russell Coleman is an American attorney and Republican politician serving as Kentucky's 52nd attorney general since 2024, after serving as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
Russell family shooting
The Russell family shooting, also called the Russell family murders, was a familicide in which Russell killed family members, then shot himself in the left lung and survived.
Russell Tribunal
The Russell Tribunal (International War Crimes Tribunal) was an unofficial 1966–67 tribunal convened by Bertrand Russell to investigate US conduct in Vietnam; sessions in Stockholm and Roskilde found the US guilty of aggression, war crimes, and genocide.
Russell Williams (criminal)
David Russell Williams (Russ Sovka), born 1963 in Cardiff, Wales, is the ex-colonel who commanded CFB Trenton and confessed in 2010 to murdering Jessica Lloyd and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, two sexual assaults, and 82 fetish break-and-enters; sentenced to life with no parole for 25 years.
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.
Russian criminal tattoos
Russian criminal tattoos are the codified prison tattoos of the Soviet and Russian systems, recording crimes, rank, and status in the vorovskoy mir; unearned marks were forcibly removed, documented by Baldaev and Bronnikov.
Russian mafia (Русская мафия)
Russian mafia (Русская мафия) denotes post-Soviet criminal networks, not one organization: Gulag-born vory v zakone with the ponyatiya code, 1990s protection rackets, transnational diaspora groups, and disputed scale figures.
Russkaya Pravda (Русская Правда)
Russkaya Pravda (Русская Правда) is the medieval law code of Kievan Rus', the oldest known of the East Slavic lands, assembled in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Ruth Ann Moorehouse
Ruth Ann Moorehouse (Ouisch, born 1952), Manson Family member who testified as Rachel Morse before the 1969 grand jury, was convicted in the 1971 Barbara Hoyt LSD poisoning, fled her 90-day sentence, and received no jail time in 1975.
Ruth B. Montenegro
Ruth Bermudez Montenegro, born 1967, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of California since 2022, after serving as a state court judge in Imperial County.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1993–2020), the second woman appointed, and earlier the ACLU Women's Rights Project leader who won five landmark sex-discrimination cases.
Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis, British nightclub hostess born 1926 in Rhyl, Wales; last woman executed in Great Britain, hanged at Holloway Prison 13 July 1955 for murdering David Blakely; granted a posthumous conditional pardon by King Charles in 2026.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Brown Snyder (1895-1928), Queens Village housewife, murdered her husband Albert with lover Judd Gray in March 1927 for double-indemnity insurance; her Sing Sing electrocution was secretly photographed by Tom Howard for the Daily News.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), nineteenth U.S. president (1877–1881), Ohio lawyer and Union major general; took office after the disputed 1876 election (185–184 electoral vote) and ended Reconstruction.
Rutledge Court
The Rutledge Court (1795) is the brief chief justiceship of John Rutledge, Washington's recess appointee after John Jay. Rejected by the Senate 10-14 over his Jay Treaty speech, it was the shortest tenure and first rejected Supreme Court nomination.
Ryan D. Nelson
Ryan D. Nelson, also known as Ryan Douglas Nelson, is an American jurist and Ninth Circuit federal appeals judge since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Ryan W. Ferguson
Ryan W. Ferguson, Missouri man wrongfully convicted in 2005 of the 2001 murder of Columbia Daily Tribune editor Kent Heitholt; exonerated November 2013 after witness recantations, later won $11 million federal judgment and $44 million insurance award.
Rylands v Fletcher
Rylands v Fletcher, also cited as John Rylands and Jehu Horrocks v Thomas Fletcher, is the 1868 House of Lords case establishing strict liability for escapes of dangerous things accumulated on land in non-natural use.
Ryotwari
Ryotwari (ryotwar) was British India's land revenue system of direct settlement with individual cultivators (ryots), devised by Alexander Read and Thomas Munro in Madras from 1792 and extended to Bombay by Elphinstone, with plot-wise assessment revised every 20-30 years.
S corporation
S corporation: a U.S. federal tax election under subchapter S letting qualifying domestic corporations with up to 100 shareholders and one class of stock pass income through to shareholders, avoiding double taxation.
S-Town
S-Town is a 2017 seven-chapter nonfiction podcast from Serial and This American Life, hosted by Brian Reed, about John B. McLemore of Woodstock, Alabama; released all at once, it drew 40 million downloads in a month and a Peabody Award.
S. A. Dharmadhikari
Sushrut Arvind (S.A.) Dharmadhikari (born 1966) is an Indian judge, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court since March 2026; former judge of the Kerala and Madhya Pradesh High Courts.
S. J. Plager
S. Jay Plager, born 1931, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2000.
S. K. Crews
S. Kato Crews is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Colorado since 2024, after serving as a magistrate judge there.