Content tagged with “russia”
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“This was the 1939 agreement between Hitler (Germany) and Stalin (Russia) where they agreed to non-aggression and to divide Poland between them. (It was named for the Foreign Ministers of both countries.) The areas of Poland that were invaded ended up with Russia after the war, and are now in…”
“ This was the region of Asia that eventually became Russia. It was named for the Moskva river, which borders the area to the west. From that grew the city of Moscow, which became the center of Grand Duchy of Muscovy. It was first mentioned in the 1200, and they fought off the Mongols in the 1300s. ”
“This is the Slavic name for a country subdivision – what other countries call a ‘state’ or a ‘province.’ The former Soviet Union used the word, and it’s used by many former Soviet republics – Ukraine, Belarus, etc. It literally translates from Russian as ‘region.’ There are 46 oblasts in…”