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Russia has had several capitals throughout its history; Moscow thus obtained an almost sacred status as the heart of Russian civilization. The Kremlin's cathedrals were the backdrop to the baptisms, coronations, and funerals of all the Russian tsars… until Peter became a fan of the ascetic German lifestyle, and as time passed, he started to hate the excessive old court traditions, the lavish but bulky dresses, and the feasts where food was served on golden dishes. Peter The Palace Bridge Legion Media Peter the Great wanted to build a new city in a European manner, with a certain urban plan (previously not used in chaotic Russian cities). Also, Peter invited European architects to erect very different buildings from what Russia had seen before. He even gave the new city a foreign name in the German style - Saint Petersburg, in honor of his saint patron, Peter. Read more: The construction of the new city only started in 1703, but in 1712 Peter moved the capital there. In 1721, he St. Isaac's Cathedral Legion Media The city developed quickly and embraced all sorts of innovations; so, it’s not surprising that revolutionaries appeared here. Starting in the second half of the 19th century, they committed terrorist attacks and even Just as Peter the Great once wanted to be rid of the old patriarchal tsardom, after the Bolsheviks seized power they immediately tried to erase the Imperial past. In one of their first measures, in 1918 they moved the capital of the new Soviet Russia t...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted at another attack on Ukrainian capital Kyiv in an interview with Russian bloggers and journalists Tuesday. At the session with several ultranationalist military bloggers and state media war correspondents, Putin discussed whether Russia would launch another mass mobilization to boost the number of Russian troops in Ukraine. At one point, he apparently suggested that he hadn't ruled out another bid to seize Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Russian "Should we return there or not? Why am I asking such a rhetorical question?" Putin cryptically told the journalists and bloggers at the televised meeting in the Kremlin, After being defeated in its campaign to seize Kyiv, the Russian military refocused its campaign on taking territory in east and south Ukraine. In recent days, the Ukrainian military has launched a counteroffensive to drive Russian forces back in those regions. According to reports Putin's aims in the war have shifted, with the Russian president still believing late last year that seizing total control of Ukraine was possible, yet more recently, After suffering punishing losses in the early months of the invasion, Putin last year drafted 300,000 civilians into the military and launched a massive military recruitment drive. There have been reports since that Putin may be preparing to draft more civilians, and tens of thousands of Russian men have fled the country to avoid fighting in the war. The Russian military bloggers who Puti...

May 31, 2022 The U.S. and its allies imposed unprecedented trade and financial sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. The Russian central bank responded with strict capital controls that have stabilized the value of its currency—the ruble—and prevented a currency or financial crisis. The Russian ruble/U.S. dollar exchange rate was stable through 2020 and 2021 apart from a depreciation at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020. However, within two weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, the ruble depreciated sharply from 80 rubles/dollar to 120 rubles/dollar. The U.S., the European Union and their allies imposed unprecedented economic and financial Their aim was to cut Russia off from world financial markets and make it impossible to finance the war. The sanctions prevented western banks from transacting with key Russian counterparts and sidelined several Russian banks from the world interbank payment system. The sanctions also froze the accounts of the Russian central bank denominated in allied currencies—effectively rendering half of the central bank’s foreign exchange reserves unusable. Russia’s central bank responded by sharply increasing interest rates and imposing strict capital controls that appear to have prevented capital flight and stabilized the ruble. Less than two months after economic and financial sanctions, the ruble and financial system avoided collapse, and the currency regained its preinvasion level ( C...

KYIV, Ukraine — A drone attack hit Moscow on Tuesday morning, damaging two residential buildings — the first strike on a civilian area of the Russian capital since President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago. It was almost certainly a prelude to a major escalation in hostilities. Kyiv has been under a relentless assault of near-nightly bombings in recent weeks, with Moscow seemingly intent on weakening or destroying Ukraine’s air defenses ahead of a much-anticipated counteroffensive that President Volodymyr Zelensky has said will oust the Russian invaders from all of Ukraine’s territory. Gladkov said that the district of Shebekino, which lies roughly four miles from Ukraine, had been struck at least 155 times, and that at least two people had been killed. “Four manufacturing enterprises sustained damage of various degrees. At one of them, four workers got upper respiratory tract burns,” he said. Hours after Tuesday’s attack on Kyiv, Sobyanin, the Moscow mayor, said drones hit two buildings in his city, causing minor damage. Writing on Telegram, the mayor said that residents were evacuated and two people sought medical attention for minor injuries. Footage from the scene showed fire damage to the outside of a top-floor apartment and broken windows. After 17 recent airstrikes, almost all of them in the middle of the night, residents here and across Kyiv have settled into a routine each time they hear an explosion: Check Telegram for news, an...

Moscow hasn’t always been the capital of Russia.When it was first mentioned in historical records around 1147, it was nothing more than a tiny town of little importance. Muscovites today consider Prince Yury Dolgoruky their city’s founding father, but it was only recorded that he dined with friends in the town of “Moskov,” named after the local Moscow River. It remains unclear exactly when this town was established, but at the time of Dolgoruky it was governed by a noble called Kuchka, who fell out with the prince over taxes and was sentenced to death. A small fortress was built on Borovitsky Hill by Dolgoruky’s son, Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky; it was the first in a long succession of structures that eventually became the Moscow Kremlin. Moscow remained a small town while the nearby city of Vladimir rose in prominence and overtook Kiev, the old capital, in importance. Moscow’s luck would change only later. Moscow’s location on the banks of the Moscow River was an important one, as the river connected both the Oka and Volga rivers. Its important strategic position and rapid population growth resulted in Daniil Alexandrovich becoming the first Moscow prince of the newly founded state of Muscovy. He founded a local dynasty which first ruled the Moscow princedom and then all of Russia. He was the forefather of all the Moscow grand dukes. From the early 14th century, Moscow competed with the neighboring city of Tver for power and influence. In 1327, Tver was raided by the Moscow...