Russian Republic

[ ruhsh-uhn ri-puhb-lik ]

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noun

a political entity declared in Russia in September 1917 by the provisional government that had established itself following the abdication of Nicholas II, but lasting less than a year.
an unofficial name for the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Russian Republic¹

First recorded in 1900–05, as a political idea

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On Friday, Russian authorities acknowledged that Ukrainian drones were targeting Grozny, provincial capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, as an Azerbaijani commercial airliner with 67 people aboard was attempting to land there on Wednesday.

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Footage of the wrecked fuselage appeared to indicate shrapnel damage and some aviation experts suggested the Azerbaijani Airlines plane may have been been hit by air defence systems over the Russian republic of Chechnya.

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That summer, Vladimir Putin’s brutal war against separatists in Chechnya – launched four years earlier – had already burst beyond the borders of the southern Russian republic.

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Vladimir Putin responded with a full-scale land offensive to recapture the mainly Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya from separatist rebels.

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The trend initially came to prominence in 2015, when apology clips started emerging on social media or local state TV in the Russian republic of Chechnya in the North Caucasus.

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