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Russia has hundreds of languages and supports most of them, sending linguists to document them and invent (mostly - in 1920-1960) writing systems for them (all Cyrillic, of course) and making them local official languages. The south border is lined with Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic; the north with Finnic and Samoyed. The southwest corner has a variety of Caucasian languages; the northeast has the few Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages.
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Under the 243-year Mongol rule, the grand princes of Muscovy emerged as the dominant political force in Russia. In the fourteenth century, the Moscow princes increased the reach of their territory, partly through the establishment of monasteries north of their capital, such as the one founded in 1397 by St. Kirill, or Cyril, at Belozersk (the “White Lake”). Kirill’s monastery became the first in Russia dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin. One of the most important subjects in Eastern Orthodoxy, the Dormition recounts the end of the earthly life of Christ’s mother, the ascent of both her body and soul of into heaven, her birth into eternal life, and her role as everlasting intercessor for humankind. In 1497, an iconostasis was created for the newly rebuilt Cathedral of the Dormition at the Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery. This exhibition features the five central panels of the Deesis tier of this famous iconostasis, as well as three icons from the Holy Feast Days tier and select textiles depicting St. Kirill.
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These new systems reveal Russia's plans for its navy and for its nuclear arsenal. Putin and Ivanov have announced that the Bulava's development reflects the recovery of the defense industry and its capability to produce for both domestic and foreign markets. They are ... supposed to be counters to America's plans for a missile defense system and to demonstrate the continuing robustness and improvement of Russia's nuclear missile and command-and-control capability.
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Venture capitalist Thomas D. Nastas is president of Innovative Ventures Inc. of the USA and Russia. Mr. Nastas is ... an marketing instructor in the MBA program at the American Institute of Business and Economic College of Moscow.
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