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Contributed by Lyubov Tsarevskaya

Russia: People and Events is a series of programs about life in Russia and Russians. We are telling you about tsars, politicians and military commanders, cultural and scientific celebrities, in a word, about people who glorified Russia as best they could. Some of them represent a whole era in the life of this country, some are less known personalities, but all of them occupy an equally important place in the history of Russia.

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23.12.2011
16:03
In the winter of 1941 Nazi Germany suffered its first big defeat in World War Two. The battle of Moscow dispelled the myth of the invincibility of Nazi Germany. Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. →
7.12.2011
12:38
Christmas fast is the last long-lasting fast in a year. Beginning on November 28th, It runs for forty days to Orthodox Christmas celebrated on January 7th in accordance with the Julian calendar. →
17.11.2011
16:53
The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight accomplished by Russia’s very own Yuri Gagarin.  That major scientific and technological achievement would have been impossible without the monumental launching of the first man-made satellite… At 20.28 a.m. →
29.09.2011
15:23
The first evidence of use of Russian wolfhounds during hunting in Ancient Russia dates back to the 12th century, and the evidence are frescoes in Old Russian churches. However, the breeding of borzoi breed of hunt dogs reached its climax at the turn of the 19th century. →
19.09.2011
15:30
In the autumn of 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. The Soviet government opened a new page in the country's development but did its best to either distort or hush up its previous history. Pre-revolutionary Russia was portrayed as a backward, poorly managed, semi-cultural and semi-literate state. But how was it in reality? →
29.08.2011
17:44
It would be no exaggeration to describe Schnittke as a martyr: he had four strokes, which deprived him of the ability to move and speak. But he continued to challenge his fate to the end: he wrote music. One and a half months before his death the premiere of his Ninth Symphony took place in Moscow. →
3.08.2011
13:20
The Battle of Gangut went down in history as the first naval victory of the Russian Fleet. It took place at Cape Gangut in August 1714 when Russians defeated the Swedes.  It was 1700. Russia had started a war with Sweden for access to the Baltic Sea. →

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