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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1800: Alexander Suvorov, general, died

1868: Nikholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, born

1868: Tsar Nicholas II, eldest son of Tsar Alexander III, was born.

1896: Stampede at Nicholas II's coronation celebration

1935: The Maxim Gorky, a massive, 206-foot wingspan behemoth of an airplane, crashes after a tragic mid-air collision.

1944: Crimean Tatars deported to Siberia.

1944: In the Soviet Union, the expulsion began of more than 200,000 Tatars from the Crimea. They were accused of collaboration with the Germans.

1977: The United States, Soviet Union and 29 other nations signed a U.N. pact banning artificial use of the weather as a weapon of war, pledging never to attack each other by triggering storms, earthquakes or tidal waves.

Featured Articles

April 17, 2007
40 and Counting: Four Decades of Russian Life
40 and Counting: Four Decades of Russian Life
By Paul E. Richardson


A look at the magazine's beginnings in 1956 (as USSR) and of its partner publication, Amerika Illustrated.

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Christmastide Tradition
By Linda DeLaine


St. Nicholas, Babouschka, Christmas Eve festivities . . .Ded Moroz leading to Christmas on January 7th.

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October 1, 2011
Contest Anyone?
Contest Anyone?

To celebrate our 55th anniversary, we're holding a subscription contest. Appropriately, there will be 55 prizes, which means some pretty good odds of winning for everyone. 

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September 26, 2008
Our Cartoonist on CNN!
By Paul E. Richardson


I just stumbled across this nice interview (July 07) of Victor Bogorad, who does the cartoons for our Survival Russian feature. Too bad the video is not archived online... 

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Tags: bogorad, cnn, interview
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Publishing Green
Publishing Green

RIS Publications, the publisher of Russian Life magazine, was founded in 1990 on the principle that paying attention to international issues matters. While U.S.-Russian relations and the history and society of the world’s largest country are important, there is no larger international issue than the health of this planet. 

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Tags: recycling, environment
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