NATO's expansion to the east, toward the borders of Russia, has raised Russian concerns.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

He's telling the men to wield forks and knives as well as weapons, and to adopt non-Russian customs, to bring them into Russia.

他叫人们要像熟练挥动武器一样来挥动刀叉,他把那些非俄国的习俗都引了进来,将他们带到了沙俄

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He tries not only to copy European absolutism, but to open up Russia to commerce, realizing that trade meant wealth and that wealth meant improvements in the lives of the Russian people.

他不仅试图仿效欧洲的绝对主义,也开放了俄国的商业贸易,他意识到贸易意味着财富,而财富则等同于俄国民众生活水平的提高

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Second,Russia was extending the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Russian port city of Vladivostok.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

Russian officials say this bombing was the first deadly terrorist attack in Russia outside of the North Caucasus in five years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

He indicated he would like to see Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Russia's former president - do the same.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

But Pavel Felgenhauer says Russia cannot afford large-scale rearmament either and that Russian authorities have not reconciled this contradiction.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

(Speaking in Russian) He says Russia's nuclear shield allows it to solve all the problems, which it has to solve.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

(Speaking in Russian) He says in some aspects, Russia is putting slight pressure on its partners, by saying this or that is unacceptable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Russia released four Russian citizens already serving prison sentences on charges of spying for the West.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

Evgenny Nasonov is with the Kremlin-aligned Young Russia Foundation, an organization that promotes "Russian family values".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

But Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov recently said 90 percent of Russia's military technology is outdated.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Its rules have to apply to all of Russian society, to all of Russia's economy."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

At the same,time, Yuri Zinichev of the All-Russian Corruption Witness Network, says Russia can blossom if a connection is made between the country's government and people.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

The Georgian spokesman says he cannot be 100 percent certain about Russia's involvement,but notes that an investigation of specific involvement of Russian special services is underway.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

In his end of the year speech, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev says his country will develop (Error) Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's comments were broadcast on Russia's state-run television networks.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

In an effort to battle Russia's rampant alcoholism, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced restrictions barring the sale of beer in cans or bottles larger than one-third of a liter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Independent Russian military analyst Viktor Litovkin says Russia lacks combat support systems rather than firing units, and notes that such systems consist of drones, precision weapons,reconnaissance,navigation, communication,and guidance systems,etc.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Meanwhile, Russia has pulled out of ministerial talks with NATO scheduled for later this month to protest the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from its mission at alliance headquarters in Brussels.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

No so for Russia. Russia and Ukraine both prohibit more than two consecutive presidential terms, Neither Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin nor President Dmitri Medvedev has ruled out another presidential bid.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

She notes,however, that the vast majority of people in the Caucasus are practicing Muslims and also Russian citizens who will continue to live in Russia, so it's important to develop normal relations with them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

In a nationally televised address to hundreds of government officials and cultural elites in the Kremlin, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said the prestige and well-being of Russia cannot forever rely on past achievements.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

On Sunday,Russian nationalists Orange Revolution. in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, threw Ukrainian history textbooks into boxes at the foot of a local monument to Russian empress Catherine the Great.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"The trust and transparency and confidence that the agreement will bring to the US-Russia relationship will also make it easier for the US and Russia to cooperate on other areas that are central to US and Russian security."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04