Example sentences of "on russia " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the wilder rumours in strong circulation were that Lenin was dead , that the French had chosen Nicholas as their Tsar , and that England had declared war on Russia , so there would be wholesale peasant mobilization once again . |
| 2 | He does not begin to describe what the effect was on Russia of by-passing the Reformation , the Counter-reformation and the Enlightenment ; instead , in an effort to be friendly , he mentions things Russian from time to time . |
| 3 | This included articles on Nigeria by former tutor-organiser Robin Hallett , on Kenya by current tutor-organiser John Smith , on West Germany by Anna Multhampt of Cambridge branch and on Russia by Irene Baczkowske of Long Stratton ; publication coincided with a series of single lectures arranged by the Federation on trouble-spots around the world , such as Cyprus , Jordan and Algeria . |
| 4 | Lord Derby was followed as Prime Minister by the Earl of Aberdeen in December 1852 , and in October 1853 , Turkey declared war on Russia . |
| 5 | Kaiser William II had built up strong forces in Germany and enlarged its naval power to counter the power of the British navy , and it was Germany 's declaration of war on Russia which led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy . |
| 6 | Certainly neither the KGB nor the GRU are going to stop spying , for that would leave them as exposed to criticism as if the CIA suddenly stopped spying on Russia . |
| 7 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 8 | German units were now leaving Sicily in a steady trickle as the Luftwaffe began regrouping for the forthcoming attack on Russia . |
| 9 | Fred Halliday reports from America on Russia , the Arab-Israeli talks , the election campaign and lousy food |
| 10 | By this time Lloyd George , in response to generalised militancy against the government 's policy on Russia , had conceded that no British troops would be sent , and so defused a potentially dangerous situation ( Miliband 1973 pp 79–82 ) . |
| 11 | Alongside resolutions on Russia and Peace , the Convention called for the immediate restoration of civil liberties , and for the establishment of all-inclusive local committees to carry forward the agitation — provocatively named Workers ' and Soldiers , Councils . |
| 12 | Perhaps Sir James and Mr Soros , an expert on Eastern Europe , have taken a strong view on Russia 's difficulties . |
| 13 | The G7 may well press the Fund to concentrate too much on Russia , to the detriment of other centrally planned economies ( notably Ukraine and Belorussia ) , which will suffer if Russia does sensible things like selling oil at world prices . |
| 14 | Izvestia has recently devoted an article to this subject and to the current state of affairs , entitled ‘ Foreign companies get their hands on Russia 's national library treasures ’ . |
| 15 | The German offensive on Russia only two months later shocked Japan , and many Japanese argued for the breaking of the non-aggression pact . |
| 16 | Lloyd George disarmed his opponents on Ireland with his Russian policy , and his opponents on Russia with his Irish policy , and they did not combine to oppose him . |
| 17 | Ronald Reagan , with his crude , moralising attacks on Russia 's ‘ evil Empire ’ , his readiness to engage in military action ( such as the invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983 ) , and his massive increase in military spending ( which helped drive America deeply into debt ) seemed disturbing to many Europeans . |
| 18 | In the end , ten republics — including some that had declared independence — agreed a joint statement which indicated that a loose union would be established based on Russia and the Central Asian republics , and that around it there would be a ‘ common economic space ’ that would include most if not all of the republics that had been part of the USSR . |
| 19 | A barter deal with Iran , which would reduce Ukraine 's reliance on Russia for fuel supplies , was announced on Jan. 29 . |
| 20 | In answer to questions , Yeltsin said that help from other countries would ease the economic transition but that reform depended on Russia itself . |
| 21 | Transport workers and some miners went on strike on Sept. 2 , affecting most airports , major railway junctions ( reportedly causing difficulties on Russia 's railways ) and 39 coal mines . |
| 22 | On Nov. 8 Azerbaijan called on Russia to extradite him to face trial . |
| 23 | ESSAY 7 — ; Did Tsarism show any real signs of re-establishing it 's grip on Russia in the period after 1905 . |
| 24 | This essay will examine the forces that lead to Tsar Nicholas losing his ‘ grip ’ on Russia ; how the Tsar tried to re-establish his power and whether the destruction of the autocracy was a political mishap or part of deeper forces which meant the Russian ‘ road ’ to a constitutional state was an impossibility . |
| 25 | Did Tsarism show any real signs of re-establishing its grip on Russia in the period after the 1905 revolution ? |
| 26 | He got things going almost three years ago with a speech in Vladivostok on Russia 's Pacific policy . |
| 27 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 28 | The tsar could congratulate himself on Russia 's first military triumph since the suppression of the Polish rebellion in 1831 . |
| 29 | Even after Britain and France declared war on Russia in March 1854 ( more than five months after the Turks had done so ) , the inclination to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis remained strong on the part of all interested parties other than the Turks and the French . |
| 30 | Tass said Ukraine , which depends on Russia for about 70 per cent of its gas needs , owed 165 billion roubles ( $286 million ) for gas supplied up to February 19 . |