Wikimedia Commons Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the ...
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Russia sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for sharing his messages from prison with the outside world.
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He said that Ukraine's military now has 880,000 soldiers, while Russia's forces are comprised of 600,000 troops. "Russian contingent in Ukraine numbers 600,000 soldiers, Ukrainian army - 880,000." ...