Russian roulette | a stunt in which you spin the cylinder of a revolver that is loaded with only one bullet and then point the muzzle at your head and pull the trigger |
Russian bank crapette | solitaire with two players using separate packs |
Russian Revolution February Revolution | the revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March |
Russian Revolution October Revolution | the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in |
borzoi Russian wolfhound | tall fast-moving dog breed |
Russian | the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia |
Belarusian Byelorussian White Russian | the Slavic language spoken in Belarus |
Russian dressing Russian mayonnaise | mayonnaise with horseradish grated onion and chili sauce or catsup, sometimes with caviar added |
White Russian | a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur, and milk or cream |
Russian Orthodox Church | an independent church with its own Patriarch, until it was the established church or Russia |
mafia maffia | any tightly knit group of trusted associates |
Mafia Maffia Sicilian Mafia | a secret terrorist group in Sicily, originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the th century |
Mafia Maffia Cosa Nostra | a crime syndicate in the United States, organized in families, believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia |
Russian agency | an administrative agency of the Russian government |
Moscow capital of the Russian Federation Russian capital | a city of central European Russia, formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia, since the capital of the Russian Federation |
Russia Russian Federation | a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia, formerly Soviet Russia, since an independent state |
Soviet Russia Russia Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia |
Russian River | a river in northern California |
Byelorussian Belorussian White Russian | a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia |
Russian | a native or inhabitant of Russia |
Great Russian | a member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia, used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia |
Russian thistle Russian tumbleweed Russian cactus tumbleweed Salsola kali tenuifolia | prickly bushy Eurasian plant, a troublesome weed in central and western United States |
Russian dandelion kok-saghyz kok-sagyz Taraxacum kok-saghyz | perennial dandelion native to Kazakhstan cultivated for its fleshy roots that have high rubber content |
Russian olive silver berry Elaeagnus augustifolia | deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales, sometimes spiny |
silver lace vine China fleece vine Russian vine Polygonum aubertii | twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers, western China to Russia |
Russian almond dwarf Russian almond Prunus tenella | Asiatic shrub cultivated for its rosy red flowers |
Russian monetary unit | monetary unit in Russia |
Russian-speaking | able to communicate in Russian |
Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Russian Orthodox Greek Orthodox | of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church |
Russian | of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language, Russian dancing |