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russia

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To pretend that Russia can merrily go on without access to it is to sit behind a convenient lie.

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Quick take

Ellipsis of Russia leather. [A form of bark-tanned cow leather, made hard-wearing, flexible, and waterproof with the use of birch oil.]

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Ellipsis of Russia leather. [A form of bark-tanned cow leather, made hard-wearing, flexible, and waterproof with the use of birch oil.]

noun

(historical) The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.

noun

(historical, dated) Kievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for russia.

noun

Ellipsis of Russia leather. [A form of bark-tanned cow leather, made hard-wearing, flexible, and waterproof with the use of birch oil.]

See also: soviet-russia, soviet-union, ussr

Example sentences

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To pretend that Russia can merrily go on without access to it is to sit behind a convenient lie.

2

If the NSA has access to backdoors in collusion with vendors, what stops China or Russia from exploiting the same backdoors?

3

Add Russia and the new radars to get anything but assurance that F-35 will deliver.

4

Google is having some anti-monopoly issues in European Union (not unlike Microsoft in the past), and Russia threatened to ban Google altogether.

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That said, Russia and China have been able to do so quite well.

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My mother and the remnants of her family fled communist Russia in 1970.

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And certainly, a policy to contain the kind of international laundering^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcapital flight that characterised Russia in the 90s is wiser than the absence of one.

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Under communist command, russia rised to the status of superpower.

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> Under communist command, russia rised to the status of superpower.

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> Everywhere that implemented them had their scientific, economic, and artistic progress completely stunted I think you're dismissing a bit too easily soviet russia.

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I'd offer a source but it's a book in French from a journalist that studied fasting and went to Russia since during the Soviet times they made a lot of researches on fasting.

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Quote examples

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At least, better than distributing the wealth among "family" like in Russia 90s.

2

Landowners would never be the "neighbors" of a peasant in Czarist Russia.

3

Arguing against "Marx really stood for Y" with "but X happened in Soviet Russia" is intellectually dishonest.

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You do realize that "what Marx actually preached" and "what happened in Soviet Russia" don't have to be the same thing, right?

Proper noun examples

1

Australian border as a whole is very communist Russia/East Berlin like, papers, where are ze nuts?

2

More precisely, it would be a war waged beneath the underclass (in Russia, the serfs and such) and the ruling class.

3

Russia is free to keep its assets within its own country if it doesn't want to participate in a larger system with shared rules.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use russia in a sentence?

To pretend that Russia can merrily go on without access to it is to sit behind a convenient lie.

What does russia mean?

Ellipsis of Russia leather. [A form of bark-tanned cow leather, made hard-wearing, flexible, and waterproof with the use of birch oil.]

What part of speech is russia?

russia is commonly used as noun.