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1900-1903 Russification of Finland

• 1857-1906 The Russians established a penal colony on Sakhalin. They transported numerous Russian criminal and political exiles there, including Lev Shternberg, an important early ethnographer of the Nivkh. The Nivkh were soon outnumbered; they were sometimes employed as prison guards and to track escaped convicts

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

• 1795-1918 Belorussia under Russian rule

• 1783-1917 War with Georgia

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