According to programingplease, Zvenigorod is located in the Moscow region, 50 km west of Moscow. Back in the 12th century, on the territory of the modern city, there was a fortified settlement, which was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky. In 1339, Ivan Kalita gave the settlement to his son and it […]
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Compared to 2014, Russia saw a drop in GDP of -3.8% in 2015 and a marked worsening of growth forecasts over the next two years. After years of positive macroeconomic data (excluding 2008, the year of the global crisis), the reasons for this recession scenario are due to both structural […]
The symbolism The period between the 19th and 20th centuries, up to the October Revolution, coincides with the great crisis that swept across Europe and led to the First World War. The Russia has been shaken in recent years by the Russo-Japanese war and by internal upheavals such as the […]
In an energy giant like Russia, the symptoms of an energy crisis – such as strikes by miners, the slowdown in investments in refineries and pipelines and the obsolescence of nuclear power plants – constitute a central element of the overall economic crisis. Coal production was largely state subsidized in […]
A quarter of a century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russia presents the traits of a profound transformation together with legacy and permanence from the past. After a disorderly transition to the market, the modernization of the first decade of the century changed the face of society […]
With the accession to the throne of Alexander II (1855) the opposition to the autocracy – which under Nicholas I still assumed a completely clandestine form and manifested itself mainly through the activity of relatively few intellectual circles, as for for example, Petraševskij’s Fourierist circle, dissolved in 1849 – suddenly […]
The Russian Orthodox Church is the dominant religious community in Russia and forms a kind of national church, linked to the cultural heritage. Its head is the patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, assisted by the Holy Synod with seven members. Among the Christians there are still some “old […]