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"In most respects 1989 seemed like a normal year: a Soviet sub sank in Norway; Tiananmen Square in China; the Exxon Valdez; Salmon Rushdie sentenced to death; Jane Fonda, Mike Tyson, and Bruce Springsteen all got divorced; the Episcopal Church hired a female bishop; Poland allowed striking unions; Voyager went to Neptune; a San Francisco earthquake flattened highways; and Russia, the US, France, and England all conducted nuclear tests."

"The King of the Russians, in the tenth century, according to Ibn Fozlán, was attended by 400 followers bound by like vows."

"Book IV.  Wars among the Tartar Princes and Some Account of the Northern Countries 127 Russia"

"It seems that Russia [Chinese A-lo-sz’ = Mongol Oros; the modern Chinese name for Russia is Wo-lo-sz’] was unknown to the nations of Eastern Asia before the Mongol period."

"Russia was out of the war."

"Herbie was beating up his chops about Lend-Lease to Russia when I walked up."

"Most recently, Nature 22 (October 2003): 395–741, stated, with Russia signed on, temperature affected by Kyoto would be–.02 degrees C by 2050."

"Russia (Rosia), annexes Georgia, i. 53n, ii. 486; great cold, Arab accounts of, 487; silver mines, 488n; subject to Tartars, 489n; conquered by Batu, 489n —— leather, i. 6n, 394, 395n; clothes of, 295n Russians, trusty lieges of king, ii. 348n"