Russia

Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, historically Ainu territory, are administered by Russia.

This source names Russia directly: "against the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), monastery founder Samuel Greene Jr., and a monastery monk, over sexual abuse Wright alleged occurred at Christ of the Hills Monastery..."

This source names Russia directly: "The Wikipedia article on Buddhism in Russia, stating that as of a 2025 survey by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), approximately 1.4 million people, about 1.0 percent of Russia's..."

This source names Russia directly: "John Snelling's Buddhism in Russia, The Story of Agvan Dorzhiev, Lhasa's Emissary to the Tsar, published by Element Books in 1993, is the only book length biography of Dorzhiev in English, the..."

This source names Russia directly: "Laura Engelstein is a historian of Russia, and this Cornell University Press book is her academic study of the Skoptsy, a Russian religious sect whose members practised ritual castration in..."

This source names Russia directly: "Texas, a monastery affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) from 1991 until ROCOR severed ties amid the allegations in 1999."

Russian Orthodox Christianity, adopted from Byzantium in 988, remains the dominant tradition.

This source names Russia directly: "Church of Scientology Moscow v. Russia, application no."

The Soviet Union enforced state atheism at home and across the bloc; its dissolution in 1991 ended the confrontation.

This source names Russia directly: "sites in the Ottoman Empire and over Russia's self-presentation as protector of Ottoman Orthodox Christians."

Nicholas I claimed a protectorate over some twelve million Orthodox subjects of the sultan and framed the war as a defence of the faith.

This source names Russia directly: "Crews's For Prophet and Tsar, Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia, published by Harvard University Press in 2006, is a scholarly history arguing that the Russian imperial state, rather than..."

This source names Russia directly: "Mennonite immigrants from Russia brought Turkey Red winter wheat and a plain communal faith to central Kansas in the 1870s."

This source names Russia directly: "purges and was not republished in Russia until after 1990, a history that affects its availability and transmission but not the authority of the fieldwork itself."

This source names Russia directly: "relief to Mennonites in southern Russia, present-day Ukraine."

This source names Russia directly: "relief to Mennonites in southern Russia (present-day Ukraine), holding its first official meeting on 27 September 1920 in Chicago."

This source names Russia directly: "A young woman from Saransk in Russia who came to attention in 2004 for saying she could see inside a living body and read the condition of the organs."

This source names Russia directly: "National Library of Russia, cited here as an institutional record, is the library's own account of its founding in 1795 and its custody of the Firkovich manuscript collection, which includes the..."

This source names Russia directly: "The National Library of Russia in St Petersburg is the custodian institution holding the Leningrad Codex, catalogued as Firkovich B 19A, the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, dated by..."

This source names Russia directly: "is a scholarly academic study of Russian Rodnoverie, the modern Slavic neopagan revival movement, examining its varied and sometimes internally conflicting relationships to Russian nationalism and..."

This source names Russia directly: "persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, community-edited."

The empire was proclaimed in 1721 and ruled from Saint Petersburg until the revolutions of 1917.

This source names Russia directly: "John Garrard and Carol Garrard's Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia, Princeton University Press, 2008, is an academic study of the Russian Orthodox Church's institutional..."

This source names Russia directly: "Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917, Sergei Zhuk's 2004 study from the Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins..."

This source names Russia directly: "on Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) in Russia, citing the Sreda research service's 2012 Arena (Atlas of Religions and Nationalities) survey finding 1.7 million people identifying as Pagan or..."

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was dynamited in 1931, and the millennium of the baptism of Rus was celebrated publicly there in 1988.

This source names Russia directly: "Rights, on 7 June 2022, ruled that Russia's 2017 nationwide ban on Jehovah's Witnesses and the 2009 dissolution of its Taganrog local organization violated Articles 9, 10 and 11 of the European..."

This source names Russia directly: "in Paris, subtitled "Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts." The publisher's own programme note quotes Stravinsky's letter to conductor Serge Koussevitzky describing the work as representing "pagan..."

This source names Russia directly: "Oak Ridge in Tennessee and shipped to Russia; the target had a half-life of 330 days, so the whole experiment ran against a clock."

This source names Russia directly: "in the surviving sources; both modern Russia and modern Ukraine trace a shared national and religious origin to this event, and both claims are named here rather than resolved in favour of either."

This source names Russia directly: "judgment in Taganrog LRO and Others v. Russia, holding that Russia's broadly worded anti-extremism legislation was misapplied to prosecute Jehovah's Witnesses' peaceful religious activity, quoting..."

This source names Russia directly: "Dostoevsky's novel, serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1868 to 1869, following Prince Myshkin, a guileless epileptic returning to Russia, through his entanglement with the merchant's son..."

This source names Russia directly: "Crummey was a historian of Russia, and this academic book, published by University of Wisconsin Press, is a detailed history of the Vyg community, a major Old Believer settlement that formed after..."

This source names Russia directly: "in Paris, subtitled "Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts." The publisher's own catalogue quotes Stravinsky describing the scenario as a solemn pagan rite in which wise elders watch a young girl..."

This source names Russia directly: "in 1991, and twenty two years before Russia banned Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist in 2017, both already recorded here, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society revised one of its longest standing..."

This source names Russia directly: "A Russia Beyond article by Anna Kuchma reporting sociologist Nikolai Mitrokhin's unofficial estimate of the Russian Orthodox Church's total annual income in the 2000s, offered in the absence of any..."

This source names Russia directly: "Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its noncombatant death estimate."

Dubnium is named for Dubna, the Russian town of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. The name settled a long priority dispute between the Dubna and Berkeley teams, which had run under rival names for two decades.

Moscovium is named for the Moscow region, where Dubna lies. Named in 2016 alongside tennessine, oganesson and nihonium, the four that completed the seventh row of the table.

Ruthenium is named for Ruthenia, the Latin name for Rus and so for Russia. Named by Karl Ernst Claus in 1844 after the Urals ore in which he found it. Gottfried Osann had proposed the same name a little earlier for a substance he could not confirm.

Born in Buryatia east of Lake Baikal, a subject of the Russian empire.

Born into a Buryat Cossack family east of Lake Baikal and educated at Kazan.

A Sakha lawyer and ethnographer from the Yakutsk region. He was arrested and shot in 1938.

A Buryat schoolteacher who collected Buryat ritual, epic and shamanic material over thirty years.

Trained in St Petersburg, and did the Tungus fieldwork under the imperial academy.

Russia is the largest Slavic nation, heir to the Kyivan baptism of 988.

Sent to the Kolyma as an exiled revolutionary, he began the Chukchi fieldwork there.

The repression fell across the USSR, not only Russia; anchored to Russia, the nearest real place entity, since no separate Soviet Union entity exists in this catalog. The source's own named example, the Leningrad congregation, is in Russia proper.

Anchored to Russia, whose Adventist communities the division restored to standing; the organizing vote itself was taken at the General Conference World Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana, a detail the event's own description states plainly rather than leaving implicit in an anchor that would read as though the vote itself was taken on Soviet soil.