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June 1812 was the start of the Napoleon Invasion, Napoleon already had control of much of Europe and was hoping to add Russia to it as well. After months of battles Napoleon still wasn't able to gain control of Russia.
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The Russian Revolution was important because it marked the beginning of a new era. The empire of Tsar Nicholas II had just collapsed and and Marxian socialism under Vladimir Lenin was taking its place
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Starting in the 1980's the Soviet Union started to see a big decrease in birth rates due to the fall of the Soviet Union as well as women's concerns about children's futures.
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Mikhail Gorbachev became the final leader of the Soviet Union, he introduced and set out the ideas of glasnost and perestroika which basically caused the Soviet Union to start falling apart.
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A horrible disaster occurred in 1986 at one of the poorly constructed and maintaining nuclear plants in Chernobyl causing 30 people to die due to acute radiation poisoning.
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After seeing that his plans failed to work and he couldn't maintain control, Gorbachev resigned leaving the Soviet Union to fail.
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By this time the Soviet Union ceased to exist leaving all 15 countries to develop economies, government systems, and settle territorial disputes.
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In Jan. 1992 the Russian government removed he price controls that had ben set by the Soviet Union, causing prices to increase a lot to the point where many families couldn't afford items.
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After the the fall of the Soviet Union many countries got involved in wars especially when trying to settle territorial disputes. The first war occurred in 1994 when Russian forces invaded Chechnya territory hoping to gain control.
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In 1995 the Russians had already gained control of most of Chechnya territory but count keep it for long after some Chechnya rebel fighters crashed their party.
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In 1996 the Russians finally agreed to a peace agreement in order to end the first war.
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In response to certain bombings that occurred in Moscow, believed to have been done by Chechnya terrorist groups, Russians invaded and gained control once again in 2001, killing over 100,000 people.
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7 large federal districts were set out by the new Russian president Vladimir Putin to gain control of the regional territories whose leaders were refusing to support the central government.
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Starting in 2004, Russia started to see a slowing trend in its economic growth indicating that it needed to improve its manufacturing industry.
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In 2006, President Putan asked parliament to come up with plans to increase the birth rates in Russia. They came up with several programs that encouraged women to have more babies by rewarding them with cash, cars, refrigerators, etc. by doing so.