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…where they were reluctant to colonize because of the lack of precious metals. It wasn’t until after the Spanish felt forced by the English, Dutch, French and Russians were they open to colonization. The Spanish set up the first white settlement within…

…where they were reluctant to colonize because of the lack of precious metals. It wasn’t until after the Spanish felt forced by the English, Dutch, French and Russians were they open to colonization. The Spanish set up the first white settlement within…

…” has been credited with helping to end the Cold War with Russia, and when the Russian threat died down, so did the need for a missile defense system. Now there are new threats to our national security that have arisen other than Russia and China. Rogue…

…Rasputin Grigory (or Gregory) Rasputin is without question one of the most sensational figures in Russian history. This mystic from Siberia arrived in St. Petersburg in 1911 and within a few years had become one of the most influential men…

…Throughout Russian history, there were many individuals who captured the interests and curiosity of scholars both domestic and foreign, but one stands out as the most ambiguous. Grigori Yefimovitch Rasputin, the so- called "Mad Monk" or "Siberian Mystic…

…would be able to take over Europe through the use of a surprise attack. The US, however, made an attack of this kind very difficult due to its development of the U2 reconnaissance plane which would give an indication of a Russian intention to attack…

…it) was conducive to the democratic route. It fostered a relationship of dependency between the landed upper class and the bourgeois class. In order to portray the differences with the English (or even on a smaller scale) route to democracy and the Russian route…

…). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made the Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1974) and, with the help of admirers 'Francis Ford Coppola' and George Lucas, the samurai epic Kagemusha…

…This film is an interesting look at what it is like to be an immigrant in modern America. It is the story of Vladimir Ivanoff, a sweet and talented but frustrated Russian saxophone player who feels the despair of living in the Soviet Union during…

…on many groups. Orthodox and Reformers. Orthodox belief that if a child was born in a Jewish mother he or she is considered a Jewish person, but the reformers belief that if the father was Jewish and the child was born in a Russian mother it considered…