In video games, Elden Ring wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards. American basketball player Brittney Griner and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (pictured) are freed via a prisoner exchange.; In Germany, 25 members of a far-right group are arrested in connection with a coup d'état plot.; Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider are elected to the Federal Council, …

Alexander III (Russian: Алекса́ндр III Алекса́ндрович, tr. Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich; 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary and reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, Alexander II.This policy is known in Russia as "counter ...

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Viktor Vasilyevich Zolotov (Russian: Ви́ктор Васи́льевич Зо́лотов; born 27 January 1954) is the current Director of the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiya) and a member of the Security Council of Russia.. Zolotov is a former bodyguard to former President Boris Yeltsin, former St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, and current Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Lithuanian (Lithuanian: lietuvių kalba) [lʲeˈtʊvʲuː ˈkɐɫbɐ] is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language of Lithuania and one of the official languages of the European Union.There are about 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 200,000 speakers elsewhere.

Juri Lotman (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu.He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences …

Chernobog (lit. "Black God") and Belobog (lit. "White God") are an alleged pair of Polabian deities. Chernobog appears in the Helmold's Chronicle as a god of misfortune worshipped by the Wagri and Obodrites, while Belobog is not mentioned – he was reconstructed in opposition to Chernobog.Both gods also appear in later sources, but they are not considered reliable.

Vladimir Popovkin (21 June 2010 – 29 April 2011) Aleksandr Sukhorukov (1 September 2011 – 9 November 2012) Arkady Bakhin (9 November 2012 – 17 November 2015) Former Deputy Ministers of Defence. Georgy Kondratyev (10 June 1992 – 9 February 1995) Valery Mironov (10 June 1992 – 9 February 1995) Vladimir Toporov (10 June 1992 – 28 March ...

Army general (Russian: Генера́л а́рмии, romanized: Generál ármii) is the second highest military rank in Russia, inferior only to a marshal and superior to a colonel general.It is a direct counterpart of the Soviet Army General rank.. At present it is also the highest rank in the air force, artillery, aerospace defense forces, armored troops, engineer troops and signal troops ...

Manichaeism was a major religion founded in the 3rd century AD by the Parthian prophet Mani (c. 216–274 AD), in the Sasanian Empire. Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process that takes place in human history, light is gradually …