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Borders of Israel
Borders of Israel: the country's boundaries with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories. Key lines are the 1949 Green Line armistice lines, treaty borders with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994), the UN Blue Line with Lebanon, and the 1974 Syria ceasefire line.
Bordrin Motor
Bordrin Motor (博郡汽车) was a Chinese electric-vehicle startup founded in Nanjing in 2016 by engineer Huang Ximing; it developed the iV6 and iV7 SUVs but produced none.
Bore
Bore (般若, Sanskrit Prajñā) was a Central Asian Buddhist monk active in Tang-dynasty Chang'an, granted the title Tripiṭaka Bānrě in 790 and remembered as the last great Buddhist translator of the Tang period.
Borealis Biosciences
Borealis Biosciences is a Vancouver, Canada-based biotechnology company developing xRNA medicines for kidney diseases, launched by Versant Ventures and Novartis in August 2024 with $150 million in funding.
Boredom
Boredom is an aversive emotional state of wanting but being unable to engage in satisfying activities, distinct from apathy, anhedonia, and depression; tied to attention and meaning, measured by scales such as the Boredom Proneness Scale, and linked to depression, anger, and risk behaviors.
Boril of Bulgaria
Boril (Борил) was tsar of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218, seizing the throne after Kaloyan's death, losing territory to the Latin Empire, and convoking the first anti-Bogomil council in 1211.
Boris Alexandrovich of Tver
Boris Alexandrovich of Tver (Борис Александрович Тверской) was grand prince of Tver from 1425 until his death in 1461, balancing alliances between Moscow and Lithuania.
Boris and Gleb
Boris and Gleb (Борис и Глеб), in baptism Roman and David, were younger sons of Vladimir of Kiev, murdered in 1015 and venerated as the first saints of Rus'.
Boris Berezovsky (Борис Абрамович Березовский) (businessman)
Boris Berezovsky (Борис Абрамович Березовский), born in Moscow in 1946, was a Russian mathematician turned oligarch who helped elect Yeltsin, broke with Putin, and fled to Britain in 2000.
Boris Chicherin
Boris Chicherin (Борис Николаевич Чичерин, 1828–1904) was a Russian jurist, historian, and philosopher who founded the state school of Russian historiography and served as Moscow's city head from 1881 to 1883.
Boris Epshteyn
Boris Epshteyn, Moscow-born American lawyer and Trump adviser: 2016 campaign surrogate, Sinclair commentator, White House communications aide, alternate-elector strategist arraigned in Arizona 2024, and personal senior counsel since January 2025.
Boris Godunov (Борис Фёдорович Годунов)
Boris Godunov (Борис Фёдорович Годунов), c. 1551–1605, was tsar of Russia 1598–1605, the first elected Russian monarch; former de facto ruler under Fedor, his reign saw the 1589 patriarchate, the 1597 serfdom decree, and the famine that opened the Time of Troubles.
Boris Grekov
Boris Grekov (Борис Греков), 1882 to 1953, was a Soviet historian of medieval Russia who directed the Academy of Sciences' Institute of History from 1937 to 1953.
Boris I of Bulgaria
Boris I of Bulgaria (Борис I), baptized Michael, ruled Bulgaria from 852 to 889 and converted his country to Christianity, founding its Slavonic literary culture.
Boris III of Bulgaria
Boris III (1894–1943), tsar of Bulgaria 1918–1943, succeeded his father Ferdinand after the WWI defeat and Neuilly treaty. He led a royal dictatorship from 1935, joined the Axis, recovered southern Dobruja, and died mysteriously in 1943 amid the contested record of saving Bulgaria's Jews while deporting over 11,000 from Macedonia and Thrace.
Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson (Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson), British Conservative politician and journalist; UK Prime Minister 2019–2022, Foreign Secretary 2016–2018, London mayor 2008–2016; delivered Brexit, led the Covid response, resigned over Partygate and the Pincher scandal.
Boris Korchilov (Борис Александрович Корчилов)
Boris Aleksandrovich Korchilov (Борис Александрович Корчилов, 1937–1961), Soviet Navy engineer-lieutenant and remote-control group commander aboard submarine K-19, died of radiation exposure after leading the 4 July 1961 reactor repair; posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin.
Boris Kurakin
Prince Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (Борис Иванович Куракин, 1676–1727) was a Russian diplomat of the Petrine era and a companion and relative by marriage of Peter I.
Boris Magaš
Boris Magaš (1930–2013), Croatian architect and architecture theorist, HAZU academician. Designer of Poljud Stadium in Split, Solaris and Haludovo hotels, Mihaljevac kindergarten, and author of Arhitektura (2012).
Boris Morozov
Boris Morozov (Борис Иванович Морозов, around 1590 to 1661) tutored Tsar Alexis and led the Russian government from 1645 until the Salt Riot of 1648 forced his removal.
Boris Nemtsov (Борис Ефимович Немцов)
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Борис Ефимович Немцов), Russian physicist, Nizhny Novgorod governor and Yeltsin-era deputy prime minister turned Putin critic, co-led PARNAS and Solidarity; assassinated 27 February 2015 on Moscow's Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.
Boris Pash
Boris Pash (Boris Pashkovsky, 1900–1995), US Army intelligence colonel who ran Manhattan Project counterintelligence at Berkeley and commanded the Alsos Mission, capturing the Haigerloch lab and Werner Heisenberg in 1945.
Boris Pistorius
Boris Pistorius (born 1960) is a German politician of the SPD who has served as Federal Minister of Defence since 2023, after leading Osnabrück and Lower Saxony.
Boris Rhein
Boris Rhein is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has served as Minister-President of Hesse since 2022 and leads the CDU-SPD coalition governing the state.
Boris Rybakov
Boris Rybakov (Борис Рыбаков) was a Soviet and Russian archaeologist specializing in the early Eastern Slavs and Old Rus', who led Soviet archaeology for decades.
Boris Sarafov
Boris Sarafov (Борис Сарафов, 1872–1907) was a Bulgarian army officer and revolutionary who chaired the Supreme Macedonian Committee and served on the Ilinden uprising general staff.
Boris Savinkov
Boris Savinkov (Борис Савинков), pen name V. Ropshin, was a Russian revolutionary terrorist and Socialist-Revolutionary leader who took part in the assassinations of Pleve and Grand Duke Sergei in 1904 and 1905.
Boris Shcherbina (Борис Евдокимович Щербина)
Boris Shcherbina (Борис Евдокимович Щербина, 1919–1990), Soviet deputy premier, Tyumen obkom first secretary who built West Siberian oil and gas, chaired the government commission managing Chernobyl and told the Politburo RBMK reactors were inherently dangerous.
Boris Sheremetev
Boris Sheremetev, also known as Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (Борис Петрович Шереметев), was a Russian general field marshal and diplomat under Peter the Great, made the first count of Russia in 1706.
Boris Šťastný
Boris Šťastný is a Czech politician, physician, and health care manager of the Motorists for Themselves party, serving as Minister of Sport, Prevention and Health and chairing its parliamentary group.