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1. Matryoshka Russian Nesting Dolls Matryoshka dolls are set of dolls designed to nest one inside another. They are cut in half at the waist to be opened. The original set of matryoshka was originally created in Russia in 1890 by Sergei Maliutin and Vasiliy Zvezdochkin, inspired by Ja...
2. The Candy Bombers and the Berlin Airlift The Candy Bombers, also known as the Raisin Bombers, were a group of American pilots that dropped treats to children during the blockade of Berlin. It's an amazing and wonderful story!
3. Belarus Travel Guide Belarus has many things to offer travelers. Belarus is rich in culture and history, relatively inexpensive and not yet over-run by tourists. However, because English is not common in Belarus and information is not widely available, travel t...
4. Background of World War Two World War II, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War; the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German i...
5. Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky was one of the leaders of the October Revolution in Russia and was second only to Vladimir Lenin, but his opposition to Stalin and the bureaucratization of the USSR led to his expulsion from the communist party, his deportation and his e...
6. The Empires and Enclaves of Europe If you live in an empire it may not matter that you don't like your neighbors much. You are both too busy fighting the remote government or trying to pay your exorbitant taxes. But what if that emperor goes away and you now live in a nation-state cre...
7. Russian Revolution In 1917, two revolutions occurred in Russia. These ended up by overthrowing the Romanov dynasty and with the establishment of the world's first communist state, the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The first revolution in February 1917, t...
8. Empire Resurgent: The Second Russian Empire Under Vladimir Putin The question the West failed to ask, when US President George Bush said he had looked into Putin's eyes, and liked what he saw, was what did Putin see in Bush's eyes? He saw that he had, that Russia had, opportunity. The US was being led by oilmen in...
9. Romania Romania could have so easily become marginalized, an outlier of both the Soviet era (never really trusted by the Kremlin) and of an older Europe on the margins of the new Europe. But Romania is a rising-middle-class economy, holding its own in the fi...
10. Bulgaria The map shows Bulgaria at the time of the rule of Simeon I (893-927).
11. Russia and the Post-Soviet States The post-soviet states: Some of the post-Soviet states that opted for independence rather than membership of the Russian Federation have joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. Many are, or are becoming, members of the European Community. This...
12. The Political Legacy of the USSR in the Baltic and Scandinavia Access to the Atlantic through the Baltic is of prime importance to Russia. The geography of the Baltic has shaped Russian policy to Scandinavia and the Baltic states of Latvia Lithuania and Estonia for centuries.
13. Finland There's more to Finland than will fit into any one lens. Here are just a few of the basic facts!
14. The Repatriate The Repatriate, written by journalist Tom Mooradian, is an account of the thirteen years he spent in the Soviet Union in the middle of the Cold War. Mooradian survived by his wits and became a basketball star for the Communist state. In spite of his a...
15. The Countries and Peoples of Central Asia A better question might be who? There is a narrow definition: the former nomads who were Sovietized in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. There is a very wide definition: the Altaic peroples. Probably the most appropriat...
16. Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin is a former KGB agent who is now the Prime Minister of Russia and also served as the President of Russia. Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin when he became the acting President of Russia on December 31, 1999. He was elected President the ne...
17. The Collective Security Treaty Organization The CSTO's organization of a Rapid Deployment Force in February 2009, together with the forced closure by Kyrgyzstan of the USAF staging base for Afghanistan, located in Kyrgyzstan, signals a new chapter in US-Russia's geopolitic.. Or, it is just ano...
18. russia This lens is about Russia and former USSR. The lens is created by immigrants from former USSR and intended for those who want to have a better understating of  Russia and former Soviet Union countries. This lens is predominantly focused on russia...
19. The Eighties T-shirts have been around for a long time now, yet they are still a unique item of clothing. More than any other kind of apparel, a t-shirt can be used to make a statement, tell a joke, or simple speak wordlessly about the person wearing it. It can h...
20. 100 Lenses About Russia Russia has over eighty "Federal Subjects" which are roughly equivalent to States in the US or countries in Europe, except that a Federal Subject could be an area (Oblast), region (Krai), municipality (Moscow) or, in fact, a local government of any si...