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  2. State Duma - Wikipedia

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    Duma Building on Manege Square. The history of the duma dates back to the boyar dumas of Kievan Rus' and Muscovite Russia as well Tsarist Russia. [4] [5] [6] The State Duma of the Russian Empire was founded in 1905 after the violence and upheaval in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and was Russia's first elected parliament.

  3. Olga Skabeyeva - Wikipedia

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    Her critical reports of the Russian opposition prompted TV critic Irina Petrovskaya [ru; uk] to describe her as a member of Russian state TV's "special operation forces", and her tone as "prosecutorial and accusatory". [3] Since 2015–2016, Skabeyeva has hosted the author's program Vesti.doc on the Russia-1 state TV channel. [4]

  4. Mass media in Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    The mass media in Ukraine refers to mass media outlets based in Ukraine.Television, magazines, and newspapers are all operated by both state-owned and for-profit corporations which depend on advertising, subscription, and other sales-related revenues.

  5. Russian State Library - Wikipedia

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    [56] [57] The Russian State Library, even before it officially became a national library, had a certain degree of cooperation with the earlier version of the National Library of Russia, the M.Y. Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, functioning as a national library since 1795. [58]

  6. Russian oligarchs - Wikipedia

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    The failing Soviet state left the ownership of state assets contested, which allowed for informal deals with former USSR officials (mostly in Russia and Ukraine) as a means to acquire state property. The Russian oligarchs emerged as business entrepreneurs under Mikhail Gorbachev (General Secretary, 1985–1991) during his period of market ...

  7. Wagner Group - Wikipedia

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    The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner [9] (ЧВК «Вагнер»), is a Russian state-funded [66] private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin.

  8. Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections ...

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    Russian use of social media to disseminate propaganda content was very broad. Facebook and Twitter were used, but also Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Medium, YouTube, Vine, and Google+ (among other sites). Instagram was by far the most used platform, and one that largely remained out of the public eye until late 2018.

  9. 2024 Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash - Wikipedia

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    Russian news media reported a crew of six people, [19] consisting of captain Stanislav Alekseevich Bezzubkin (35), [20] [21] co-pilot Vladislav Vadimovich Chmirev (24), [22] navigator Alexey Anatolyevich Vysokin (31), flight engineer Andrey Leonidovich Piluev (38), [23] technician Sergey Nikolaevich Zhitenev (34), and radio operator Igor ...